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THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 


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The 
Faith  that  Demonstrates 

FLORENCE  ^CRAWFORD 


THIRD  EDITION 


Published  by 


The   Ccrafcrter  Leagiip^  of  Light 
210   Poet   St., San   Francisco, Calif . 


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Copyright  1920 

By  FLORENCE  CRA-NVFORD 

All  rights  reserved 


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CONTENTS 

Chapter  Page 

I.  Freedom  Through  Faith           .         .         .         .  11 

II.  How  to  Acquire  Faith 22 

III.  The  Power  of  Faith 35 

IV.  The  Law  of  Faith 54 

V.  The  Faith  That  Heals 77 

VI.  Unfoldment  Through  Faith      ....  92 

VII.  The  Transforming  Power  of  Faith           .         .  107 

VIII.  Abundance  Through  Faith      ....  123 

IX.  Demonstration  Through  the  Law  of  Faith      .  137 

X.  Guide  to  Demonstration 144 


519574 


Faith  is  much  more  than 
mere  religious  fervor; 
it  is  scientific  principle — 
a  universal  law. 


I3o  you 


This  message  of  faith  comes  to  you 
after  I  have  proved  its  power  in  my 
own  experience.  Through  faith  I 
have  received  inspiration,  health, 
guidance,  unfoldment,  protection  and 
supply  from  the  Spirit.  "The  Com- 
forter" work,  which  I  am  privileged 
to  do,  was  born  and  developed 
through  faith.  Having  proved  the 
wonder  of  this  law,  I  now  send  this 
to  you  as  my  testimony.  Have  faith 
and  DOUBT  not,  for  God  who  created 
the  worlds  through  faith  by  the 
power  of  his  word,  bids  you  unfold 
his  creation  through  the  same  law. 
Faith  worketh  by  love,  and  the  joy 
of  unfolding  God's  perfect  creation 
awaits  you  when  you  will  but  believe 
and  use  this  law.  Prove  the  magic 
of  it  in  love,  and  rise  from  the  limita- 
tions of  faithlessness  into  the  glory  of 
your  FAITHFUL  self. 

F.  C. 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  I 

Freedom  Through  Faith 

HERE  is  no  limit  to  the  power 
of  faith.  "If  thou  canst  be- 
lieve, all  things  are  possible  to 
him  that  belie veth,"  said  the 
great  Master  of  faith.  All  things  are  pos- 
sible unto  you,  and  nothing  shall  be  im- 
possible unto  you  (Mat.  17:20)  if  you 
have  the  mustard  seed  quality  of  faith 
which  believes  in  that  omnipotence  which 
operates  from  within  and  lies  back  of  all 
desire  for  expression. 

God  himself  has  given  you  the  power 
of  faith.  It  is  a  law.  It  is  a  law  w^hich 
he  has  given  to  make  you  free.  Until 
you  use  the  law  of  faith  you  are  in 
bondage  to  every  earthly  condition;  but 
once  you  become  conscious  of  the  "faith 
that  worketh  by  love,"  (Gal.  5:Q)  you 
are  forever  free.     Knowledge  of  freedom 

[11] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

through  the  law  of  faith  is  one  of  the  great 
gifts  given  to  the  world  by  the  Master. 
How  he  plead  with  man  to  use  it!  "Where 
is  your  faith?"  he  questioned  the  disciples 
who  feared  they  would  perish  in  the  storm. 
"Wherefore  didst  thou  doubt?"  was  his  re- 
buke to  Peter,  who  would  have  sunk  be- 
neath the  waves  but  for  his  staying  hand. 
"O,  faithless  generation!"  he  called  to  the 
whole  world  when  the  unbelieving  disciples 
brought  to  him  the  lunatic  boy  they  had 
been  unable  to  heal;  and  how  sorrowing 
is  his  question,  "When  the  Son  of  man 
Cometh  will  he  find  faith  on  the  earth?" 
Over  and  over  again  he  reminded  those 
whom  he  had  restored  to  the  conscious- 
ness of  health,  "Thy  faith  hath  saved  thee. 
Thy  faith  hath  made  thee  whole." 

Faith  must  be  used  by  you  for  yourself 
if  you  desire  freedom.  It  is  your  faith 
that  saves  you — not  the  faith  of  another. 
Therefore,  grow  large  in  your  conception 
of  the  power  of  faith,  and  in  the  realiza- 
[12] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

tion  of  your  responsibility  and  privilege 
in  applying  it.  Since  it  is  God's  gift,  you 
displease  him  if  you  do  not  use  it.  The 
Father  does  not  desire  to  see  you  in  lim- 
itation or  lack  of  any  kind.  "He  satisfieth 
the  desire  of  every  living  creature."  His 
great  longing  is  that  you  shall  recognize 
hi7n  as  the  one  who  satisfies,  or  fulfills,  the 
desire.  All  seeming  lack  is  but  an  invita- 
tion urging  you  to  the  acceptance  of  God 
as  the  fulfillment  of  it.  Remember  to 
begin  the  solution  of  your  problem — the 
fulfillment  of  your  need — in  the  true 
place:  ''In  the  beginning — God."  Spirit, 
the  Father,  is  the  source  and  substance  of 
every  needful  thing.  Therefore,  the  first 
step  in  demonstration  is  to  recognize  that 
whatever  you  desire,  its  beginning,  or 
source,  is  God,  and  you  must  go  to  the 
Father  for  it,  knowing  for  a  certaint}^ 
that  if  you  ask  for  bread  you  will  not  re- 
ceive a  stone,  but  will  receive  exactly  that 
for  which  you  ask. 

[13] 


THE    FAITK     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

"Ask,  and  it  shall  be  given  you — 
for  everyone  that  asketh  receive th. 
Or  what  man  is  there  of  you,  whom 
if  his  son  ask  bread,  will  he  give  him 
a  stone?  Or  if  he  ask  a  fish,  will  he 
give  him  a  serpent?  How  much  more 
shall  your  Father  which  is  in  heaven 
give  good  things  to  them  that  ask 
him."    (Mat.  7:8-12.) 

"But  thou  when  thou  prayest,  en- 
ter into  thy  closet,  and  when  thou 
hast  shut  thy  door,  pray  to  thy  Father 
which  is  in  secret;  and  thy  Father 
which  seeth  in  secret  shall  reward 
thee  openly."    (Mat.  6:5-7.) 

All  things  that  are  seen  have  been  made 
of  the  substance  of  faith.  "Faith  is  the 
substance  of  things  hoped  for,  the  evidence 
of  things  not  seen."  The  very  worlds  were 
brought  forth  through  faith  by  the  word  of 
God  (Heb.  11:3)  so  that  "Things  which 
are  seen  were  not  made  of  things  which 
[14] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

do  appear."  All  things  are  made  of  the 
invisible  substance  of  God,  "framed  by  the 
word"  through  the  power  of  faith.  When 
you  frame  a  picture,  you  outline  it,  or 
enclose  it  in  its  frame.  Even  so  do  you 
frame,  or  outline,  your  desire  by  the  word 
you  speak.  What  faith  pictures  have  you 
been  outlining,  or  framing,  by  the  power 
of  your  word?  Have  these  pictures  been 
of  faith  or  of  fear?  There  is  a  law  of  fear 
as  well  as  a  law  of  faith.  Job  found  that 
what  he  feared  came  upon  him.  He  had 
framed  in  mind  a  fearful  picture,  and  it 
became  manifest.  The  Master  said,  ''Fear 
not,  only  believe,''  for  it  was  his  desire 
that  man  should  know  he  could  frame  ideal 
conditions  through  the  power  of  the  word 
and  so  experience  freedom  instead  of 
bondage. 

Fear  is  the  shadow  side  of  faith.     It 

works  against  you  rather  than  for  you. 

Therefore,  fear  not,  believe  only.    Let  all 

your  force  be  used  in  believing.     Waste 

[15] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

none  of  it  in  fear.  Have  faith  only — no 
fear  at  all.  Fear  is  born  of  untruth,  be- 
lieving in  the  power  and  presence  of  evil. 
The  truth  is,  God  is  all  and  he  is  good. 
He  is  the  only  power,  substance  and  intel- 
ligence. Have  faith  in  God,  the  good. 
Fear  is  negative  and  creates  every  nega- 
tive condition.  It  brings  undesirable 
things  only.  Faith  is  positive  and  creates 
positive  conditions.  It  brings  all  that  is 
good  and  desirable.  "Faith  is  the  sub- 
stance of  things  hoped  for,"  or  desired. 
Desire  that  which  is  good,  then  have  faith. 
It  is  to  be  formed  of  the  very  substance 
of  your  own  faith,  for  faith  is  substance — 
mind  substance. 

Dismiss  from  your  consciousness  the  be- 
lief that  there  are  spiritual  and  material 
things.  Bathe  your  eyes  in  the  pool  of 
Siloam,  which  means  Sent,  (John  9:7) 
and  see  that  all  is  Spirit;  that  all  things 
visible  come  forth  through  faith  from  the 
invisible  Spirit  substance  itself.  Have 
[16] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

faith  in  God,  actually  in  him,  that  is, 
within  him.  See  your  desire  in  God,  and 
know  that  he  manifests  as  the  fulfillment 
of  it.  Since  God  is  the  omnipresence,  he 
is  the  source  of  all  things  visible  and  in- 
visible. Being  all,  God  has  no  conscious- 
ness of  either  lack  or  possession,  only  the 
realization  of  being  all — all  that  is.  It  is 
his  joy,  then,  to  be  the  fulfillment,  or  that 
which  fills  full,  your  desire. 

Cleanse  your  thought  of  the  sense  of 
lack.  God  being  cdl,  he  cannot  be  more 
or  less,  hence  has  no  thought  of  gain  or 
of  loss.  Whether  his  Being  is  expressed 
or  unexpressed,  still  he  is  being  God — the 
whole  thing — the  absolute  allness  of  all 
there  is.  H2  O  is  H2  O  whether  the  form 
be  gas,  steam,  rain,  dew,  ice  or  snow.  So 
is  God  always  God  whether  in  Being,  or 
state  (form)  of  Being.  He  is  to  you  as 
you  ash  him  to  be,  for  "Everyone  that 
asketh  receiveth."  (Mat.  7:8.) 
[17] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

"Ask  and  ye  shall  receive,  that  your  joy 
may  be  full."  (John  16:24) 

If  you  were  the  host  at  a  banquet  and 
had  provided  an  abundant  supply  of  good 
and  desirable  things  for  the  pleasure  of 
your  guests,  would  it  not  be  your  wish  to 
serve  them  as  they  desired?  Would  you 
take  offense  because  they  might  choose  one 
thing  and  not  another?  Certainly  not. 
You  would  desire  only  that  they  should 
state  their  request.  Your  pleasure  would 
be  in  fulfilling  it.  Can  you  not  under- 
stand, then,  the  consciousness  of  the  all- 
bountiful  and  beautiful  God  of  whom  the 
Master  says,  "Will  he  not  give  good 
things  to  them  that  ash  him?"  Therefore, 
ask  God.  Ask  for  what  you  do  want,  and 
do  not  name,  or  outline,  to  the  ever-re- 
sponsive Spirit  that  which  you  do  not 
want.  For  every  idle  word  that  you  speak 
you  shall  be  required  to  give  an  account 
thereof  in  the  day  of  judgment,  or  at  that 
time  when  the  word  you  have  "framed" 
[18] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

takes   form  in  your  experience.    (Matt. 
12:36.) 

The  greatest  freedom  will  come  to  your 
mind  when  you  realize  that  faith  is  a  law, 
and  that  it  is  a  law  for  the  use  of  every 
one.  Just  as  the  principle  of  mathematics 
may  be  used  by  all,  so  may  the  law  of  faith 
be  used.  Many  apply  this  law  uncon- 
sciously and  create  for  themselves  desir- 
able conditions  which  many  of  the  "chil- 
dren of  the  light"  fail  to  enjoy  because 
they  fear  to  use  the  very  law  which  the 
Spirit  has  given  man  in  order  that  he  may 
exercise  his  "dominion  in  earth."  The  law 
of  faith  is  the  law  that  brings  free- 
dom. Paul  says,  "Before  faith  came,  we 
were  under  the  law  .  .  .  but  after 
that  faith  is  come  we  are  no  longer  under 
a  schoolmaster."  (Gal.  3:23-26.)  In  other 
words,  after  faith  is  revealed  to  us  as  a 
law,  we  ourselves  become  masters  and  use 
it.  The  Master  Jesus  was  astonished  at 
our  lack  of  faith.  "How  is  it  that  ye  have 
[19] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

no  faith!"  he  exclaimed.  And  again, 
"O,  wherefore  didst  thou  doubt?" 

Try  to  see  very  clearly  that  faith  is  not 
hope,  neither  is  it  belief.  Today  you  may 
believe  something,  and  tomorrow,  some- 
thing else.  Your  belief  may  be  strength- 
ened into  hope,  but  even  your  hope  will 
not  demonstrate  for  you.  It  but  leads  to 
the  faith  that  creates.  Hope  is  like  a  bot- 
tomless bucket.  As  fast  as  water  is 
dipped  in  a  bottomless  bucket,  it  runs 
out.  That  is  why  you  may  hope  and  hope 
and  hope,  but  never  receive.  Faith  puts 
a  bottom  in  the  bucket.  What  it  dips  it 
keeps.  It  holds  the  substance,  gives  it 
definite  form,  and  establishes  the  thing 
you  desire.  "Faith  is  the  substance  of 
things  [hoped  for."  At  first,  you  hope,  but 
at  last  you  have  faith.  Then  you  demon- 
strate, and  not  before. 

When  you  have  brought  into  experi- 
ence the  fulfillment  of  a  heart's  desire 
through  the  definite  law  of  faith  you  will 
[20] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

value  the  law.  It  will  be  more  wonder- 
ful to  you  than  the  fulfillment  of  your  de- 
sire. When  you  have  proved  God's  law, 
you  will  love  God,  and  praise  Him  for 
the  means  He  has  given  you  through 
which  you  may  establish  perfect  freedom 
in  all  your  affairs.  You  will  rejoice  be- 
cause the  law  of  the  Lord  is  perfect.  It 
will  convert  your  soul.  That  is,  it  will  fire 
your  soul  with  a  great  appreciation  of  this 
"treasure  in  heaven,"  or  law  of  mind, 
which  you  must  seek  "first"  in  order  to 
have  the  "added  thing,"  because  it  is  this 
law  which  forms  the  added  thing,  or 
makes  it  possible. 


[21] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  II 

How  to  Acquire  Faith 

__^1AITH  is  a  quality  of  con- 
^SJfS)  sciousness  which  gives  evi- 
dence of  its  use  through  the 
effects  its  produces.  Faith 
which  does  not  manifest  in  works  is  not 
faith,  but  doubt  and  unbelief.  Thus,  in 
endeavoring  to  acquire  faith,  we  are  not 
seeking  a  blind  belief  in  an  intangible,  im- 
practical, mystical  something  which  lies 
ever  beyond  us,  but  are  seeking  to  ascer- 
tain the  way  to  use  a  force  which  operates 
according  to  a  definite  law,  and  produces 
definite  results. 

Faith  is  not  something  which  lies  out- 
side the  self,  but  a  consciousness  within 
the  self.  Every  one  has  faith,  but  few 
recognize  it,  and  only  the  very  few  know 
how  to  use  it,  and  what  it  can  accomplish. 
The  Master  made  no  limit  to  the  power 
[22] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

of  faith.  "If  ye  have  faith  as  a  grain  of 
mustard  seed  .  .  .  nothing  shall  he 
impossible  unto  you/'  (Matt.  17:20.) 
That  faith  lies  within  the  individual,  he 
clearly  indicates  in  the  following:  ''Thy 
/fli^/i  hath  made  thee  whole."  (Matt.  9:22.) 
"According  to  your  faith  be  it  unto  you." 
(Matt.  9:29.)  Again,  he  asked,  "Where 
is  2/oi^r  faith?"  (Luke  8:25.)  At  another 
time  he  questioned  them  in  wonderment, 
"How  is  it  that  ye  have  no  faith?"  (Mark 
4:40.)  Thus  we  see  the  first  evidences  of 
faith  are  to  be  found  within  the  individual. 
It  is  there  in  some  form,  and  it  is  always 
exercised  though  often  unconsciously. 
Now  that  we  are  learning  the  wonders 
that  may  be  produced  through  faith,  it  is 
time  to  awaken  to  its  presence  within  us 
and  to  exercise  this  power  until  it  accom- 
plishes for  us  the  works  we  wish  it  to  do. 
We  exercise  faith  when  we  go  to  bed  at 
night,  for  we  cannot  foretell  the  events 
of  the  morning,  and  know  not  what  shall 
[23] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

occur  while  we  are  sleeping,  yet  we  close 
our  eyes  in  perfect  faith,  planning  the 
work  of  the  day  to  come.  In  faith  we 
think  and  speak  and  act.  Few  among  us 
know  aught  of  the  power  of  thought  and 
of  the  possibilities  of  construction  and  de- 
struction that  lie  in  the  spoken  word,  but 
in  thinking  and  in  speaking  we  ignorantly 
use  faith,  little  guessing  how  the  result 
may  react  upon  us.  Few  understand  the 
process  of  the  assimilation  of  food,  yet  all 
eat  in  faith,  and  the  silent,  unseen  forces 
of  the  mind  that  are  greater  than  those 
of  the  conscious  realm,  calmly  and  per- 
fectly do  their  work.  Without  knowing 
how  they  do  it  we  trust  them;  we  have 
faith,  and  it  is  done.  The  farmer  plants 
his  grain  for  the  next  season's  harvest  in 
faith.  He  does  not  understand  why  or 
how  the  little  seeds  sprout  and  grow,  but 
without  knowing,  he  does  his  part  in  faith, 
though  perchance  he  would  never  think 
of  it  as  such.  When  he  has  done  his  work, 
[24] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

the  sun,  the  earth,  the  rain,  the  dew,  the 
air  and  the  very  seed  he  plants,  do  their 
part  in  obedience  to  laws  that  his  objec- 
tive mind  does  not  comprehend,  yet  which 
faithfully  operate  above  the  plane  of  his 
consciousness. 

It  is  but  another  step  to  deliberately 
use  this  faith  for  a  definite  end,  still  trust- 
ing the  operation  of  a  law  that  may  be  al- 
together unknown  to  the  outer  realm  of 
thought.  The  faith  we  use  when  we  re- 
tire is  in  the  dark  of  night.  In  times  of 
uncertainty,  or  in  darkened  consciousness, 
we  often  are  obliged  to  speak  and  act.  It 
is  in  the  time  of  hunger  that  we  have  the 
faith  to  eat.  It  is  when  there  is  need  of  a 
harvest  that  we  sow.  Is  it  then  an  unnat- 
ural thing  that  in  the  hour  of  despair,  in 
a  time  of  direst  need,  in  the  midst  of  a 
distressing  sense  of  lack,  we  should  still 
be  called  upon  to  exercise  faith  in  the 
operation  of  a  law  that  works  beyond  the 
[25] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

plane  of  the  conscious  mind?  Indeed  it 
is  most  natural  that  this  should  be  so. 

In  Paul's  epistles  he  many  times  em- 
phasizes the  fact  that  a  faith  that  is  seen 
is  not  faith,  and  this  is  indeed  true,  for 
faith  is  always  the  "substance  of  things 
hoped  for''  or  that  quality  of  the  mind 
that  reaches  toward  the  desire  of  the  heart, 
"as  seeing  the  invisible."  There  could  not 
be  a  reaching  toward  the  desire  if  there 
were  no  desire,  and  there  could  be  no  de- 
sire if  there  were  no  need.  Therefore  the 
need  awakens  the  desire.  Once  outlined 
in  the  mind,  the  desire  is  first  hoped  for, 
then  hoped  for  with  such  conscious  con- 
viction that  it  becomes  real  to  conscious- 
ness. Hope  is  thus  raised  to  faith,  and 
faith  is  the  substance  through  which  the 
imaged  desire  becomes  an  imaged  reality, 
or  a  real  image. 

It  is  important  in  acquiring  faith,  to 
learn  first  of  all  to  value  the  need  that  in- 
spires faith  to  action.  Instead  of  feeling 
[26] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

alarm  at  the  need  which  is  present  in  your 
life,  see  it  as  prepared  ground  that  calls 
for  a  seed.  This  need  demands  satisfac- 
tion. It  is  there  to  compel  you  to  con- 
ceive that  which  will  fulfill  the  need. 
When  you  have  once  named  it  you  have 
conceived  an  idea  which  if  held  faithfully 
(or  perfectly  imaged  in  your  mind  in 
faith)  will  be  given  birth  in  your  experi- 
ence. Blessed  is  the  emptiness  that 
arouses  your  consciousness  to  the  point  of 
conceiving  that  which  will  fill  it. 

The  average  individual,  not  knowing  the 
truth,  holds  fear  in  the  hour  of  need  in- 
stead of  faith,  and  creates  a  fearful  image 
in  mind,  thus  increasing  the  difRfculty. 
"Fear  not,"  said  the  Master.  "Have  faith, 
and  doubt  not."  This  seems  easy  to  say, 
but  you  inquire,  "How  can  I  avoid  the 
doubt  amid  such  trying  circumstances?" 
Here  the  soul  needs  to  be  strengthened  by 
the  example  of  others  who  have  proved 
the  way  through  faith.  Paul  makes  this 
[27] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

clear  in  his  words,  "Now  faith  cometh  by 
hearing,  but  hearing  by  the  word  of  God." 
(Rom.  10:17.)  In  such  an  hour  of  doubt 
one  would  do  well  to  read  the  eleventh 
chapter  of  Hebrews,  and  then  make  a 
study  of  all  those  mentioned  who  received 
a  "good  report,"  or  had  good  reported  of 
them,  because  they  acted  in  faith,  not  see- 
ing the  way,  but  believing  in  the  opera- 
tion of  a  law  which  is  beyond  sight,  and 
which  never  fails  to  produce  results  for 
the  faithful. 

There  are  many,  however,  who  cannot 
receive  their  inspiration  from  reading 
stories  about  those  who  seem  but  myst- 
ical in  character.  They  demand  some- 
thing more  at  hand.  To  these  I  would 
say  in  words  of  my  own,  "Now  faith 
cometh  by  seeing,  by  seeing  the  works  of 
God."  The  conscious  mind  cannot  see  the 
actual  working,  for  that  is  done  by  a  mind 
higher  than  the  conscious  mind,  but  illus- 
trations can  be  seen  to  show  the  law,  and 
[28] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

SO  lead  the  conscious  mind  to  trust,  or  have 
faith  in  this  higher  power.  Take  for  in- 
stance in  the  conception  of  a  child.  Father 
and  mother  conceive  the  child.  That  ac- 
tion is  of  the  conscious  mind,  but  beyond 
this  they  cannot  go.  The  formation  of  the 
child's  body  is  accomplished  without  their 
conscious  knowledge.  This  is  done  for 
them  by  a  mind  beyond  the  conscious,  and 
indeed  if  their  conscious  mind  were  al- 
lowed to  act  in  this  matter  it  would  be  but 
an  interference. 

Even  so,  in  the  action  of  faith,  when 
the  conscious  mind  with  its  thinking,  its 
reasoning,  its  arguments,  its  questions,  at- 
tempts to  assist,  it  but  interferes  and  pre- 
vents. The  conscious  mind  can  do  one 
thing  alone  and  then  it  must  rest.  It  can 
ask  for  what  it  wants,  but  then  it  must 
have  the  faith  to  believe  that  the  fulfill- 
ment of  that  desire  is  being  formed  by  a 
law  which  works  without  assistance  from 
the  objective  plane.  The  conscious  mind 
[29] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

can  know,  and  must  know,  what  it  wants, 
then  the  soul,  or  higher  mind,  forms  what 
is  wanted.  Man  in  his  need  asks.  God 
in  his  fullness  gives.  Thus  the  child  takes 
the  part  of  the  child,  and  the  Father  takes 
the  part  of  the  Father.  The  Father  gives, 
and  the  child  receives.  "Ask  and  receive, 
that  your  joy  may  be  full,"  said  the  Mas- 
ter. 

This  asking  in  recognition  of  the  higher 
power  must  be  done  in  the  faith  of  a  little 
child,  and  it  is  only  this  childlike  state  of 
mind  that  ever  receives  the  full  reward  of 
faith,  for  the  child  is  willing  to  receive, 
indeed  it  knows  naught  but  to  receive.  Its 
consciousness  is  open,  expectant,  recep- 
tive, and  therefore  the  fullness  can  come 
to  it.  It  is  good  for  the  "grown  up"  con- 
sciousness, that  which  feels  itself  to  be  so 
intellectual,  and  which  knows  so  much 
about  things  (but  which  has  never  entered 
into  or  become  one  with  the  heart  of 
things)  to  really  examine  this  phase  of  its 
[30] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

consciousness.  What  does  it  really  know 
anyway?  What  can  it  really  know? 
Spirit  and  intellect  are  as  widely  different 
as  the  sun  and  the  moon.  The  moon  has 
a  light  about  it  from  the  sun,  but  the  sun 
is  light  in  itself.  Therefore,  souls  must 
enter  more  and  more  into  the  heart  of 
of  things,  enter  into  the  Spirit  of  life,  and 
allow  the  Spirit  to  play  through  them  as 
it  does  through  its  whole  creation.  It  is 
the  Spirit  that  holds  the  vast  universe 
poised  in  power  and  perfect  form.  It  is 
the  Spirit  that  teaches  the  little  birds  to 
build  their  nests  in  the  faith  that  by  and 
by  there  will  be  eggs  to  fill  them.  It  is 
the  Spirit  that  moves  the  clouds,  turns  the 
wind,  holds  the  sea  in  its  place,  paints  the 
glorious  sunset,  dawns  in  the  sunrise,  tints 
the  leaves,  colors  and  unfolds  the  flowers, 
gurgles  in  the  brook,  plays  in  the  fountain, 
sings  in  the  heart,  frolics  through  the  dear 
little  wild  creatures  and  laughs  in  inno- 
cent happiness  through  the  little  child! 
[31] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

How  can  one  live  upon  the  earth  and  miss 
seeing  the  spirit  of  things?  How  can  one 
doubt  the  presence  of  Spirit  and  fail  to 
have  the  faith  to  yield  to  Spirit?  Surely, 
"Faith  Cometh  by  seeing, — by  seeing  the 
works  of  God,"  as  I  have  said.  We  need 
but  to  open  our  eyes,  and  acknowledge 
that  we  are  one  with  a  unified  creation 
which  lives  and  moves  and  has  its  being 
in  the  God  that  lives  and  moves  and  ex- 
presses his  Being  through  it. 

Certainly  we  are  compassed  about  by 
this  great  number  of  witnesses.  Living 
among  them,  how  can  we  feel  anxious  be- 
cause of  tomorrow?  How  easy  it  is,  if  we 
will  but  hear  their  testimony,  to  "toil  not," 
but  rather  "to  consider  the  lilies,  how  they 
grow."  How  simple  a  thing  to  rest  in  the 
promise,  "If  God  so  clothe  the  grass  of 
the  field,  will  he  not  much  more  clothe  you, 
oh  ye  of  little  faith?"  But  see  things  in 
their  larger  sense,  but  awaken  to  the  fact 
of  a  unified  creation,  but  fit  yourself  into 
[32] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

the  whole  of  it,  opening  to  the  fullness, 
the  allness  of  life,  and  you  cannot  be  faith- 
less, but  faith  full.  Once  to  see  this,  leaves 
no  room  for  doubt,  for  faith  fills  the  soul 
to  the  uttermost. 

Have  faith  to  know  God  is,  faith  to  ask 
because  God  is,  faith  to  receive  because 
God  is,  and  faith  to  act  believing  that  you 
have  already  received, — this  is  a  full  faith. 
The  Father  indeed  knoweth  that  you  have 
need  of  all  these  things,  but  the  Father 
desires  your  recognition  of  him.  He  de- 
sires that  you  shall  look  to  him,  see  him 
as  the  beginning  J  and  as  the  fulfillment  of 
your  desire.  Therefore,  he  bids  you 
"Ask."  He  tells  you  plainly  in  the  words 
of  the  Master  that  it  will  be  vmto  thee  "as 
thou  wilt"  He  would  have  you  know  that 
he  will  satisfy  the  hunger  of  your  heart, 
but  also  he  would  have  you  understand 
that  "He  that  cometh  to  him  must  believe 
that  he  is  and  that  he  is  a  rewarder  of 
them  that  diligently  seek  him."  (Hebrews 
[33] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

11:6.)  It  is  but  divine  order,  it  is  but  the 
natural  order,  it  is  but  right  that  the  Son 
should  acknowledge  his  relationship  to  the 
Father.  Every  need  in  the  personal  life 
God  is  waiting  to  fill,  but  are  you  in  the 
personal  life  waiting  for  God  to  fill  it? 
That  is  the  question.  That  is  where  the 
adjustment  must  be  made.  Hear  with 
your  ears  the  testimony  of  the  throng  of 
witnesses.  See  with  your  eyes  the  count- 
less millions  of  evidences  of  his  work  and 
his  presence.  Then  open  the  heart,  dis- 
miss the  unbelief  which  but  shuts  you 
from  your  good,  and  believe  the  promise 
which  cannot  fail  because  uttered  by  the 
very  personification  of  Truth  itself. 

"What  things  soever  ye  desire, 
when  ye  pray,  believe  that  ye  receive 
them,  and  ye  shall  have  them."  Mark 
11:24. 


[34 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 


CHAPTER  III 


The  Power  of  Faith 

OW  is  it  that  ye  have  no  faith?" 
asked  the  Master  in  astonish- 
ment of  his  disciples  when 
they  quaked  with  fear  before 
the  raging  storm.  He  could  not  compre- 
hend their  inability  to  use  that  power 
which  it  was  their  right  to  use  at  such  a 
time.  They  in  turn  questioned  in  amaze- 
ment among  themselves,  "What  manner 
of  man  is  this  that  even  the  winds  and 
waves  obey  him?" 

Jesus  was  the  same  manner  of  man  that 
all  men  are  to  be,  and  which  he  expected 
them  to  be.  He  wondered  that  those 
about  him  did  not  awaken  to  their  right 
to  use  the  power  at  their  command,  and 
so  be  delivered  from  their  bondage.  How 
often  he  referred  to  the  power  of  faith! 
"Have  faith  in  God." 
[35] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

"Have  faith  and  doubt  not." 
"Daughter,  thy  faith  hath  made  thee 

whole." 
"Thy  faith  hath  saved  thee." 
"Wherefore  didst  thou  doubt?" 
"O  faithless  generation!" 
"Oye  of  little  faith!" 
"Be  not  faithless,  but  believing." 
"If  ye  have  faith  as  a  grain  of  must- 
ard seed  ye  should  say  unto  this 
mountain.  Remove  hence  to  yonder 
place;  and  it  should  remove;  and 
nothing  shall  be   impossible  unto 
you." 
Think    of    the    power    given    to    man 
through  faith,  "Nothing  shall  be  impos- 
sible unto  you!"     What  more  could  be 
promised?     What  could  be  more  all  in- 
clusive?   Not  one  condition  of  limitation 
is  suggested  except  the  limitation  which 
one  gives  to  his  own  faith. 

The  mustard  seed  faith  is  not  a  small 
faith,  as  many  have  supposed.    The  Mas- 
[36] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ter  in  speaking  of  it  referred  to  its  quality 
rather  than  its  quantity.  The  faith  of  the 
mustard  seed  is,  that  being  a  mustard  seed, 
it  has  the  right  to  give  expression  to  the 
mustard  plant.  It  is  this  kind  of  a  faith, 
this  same  quality,  that  man  is  expected  to 
use.  He  is  to  know  that  being  a  Son  of 
God  he  has  the  right  to  express  all  that 
the  Son  of  God  is,  the  fullness,  the  free- 
dom, the  power  and  perfection  of  his  be- 
ing. Man,  the  offspring  of  God,  who  is 
indeed  the  very  image  and  likeness  of  God, 
has  been  given  dominion  in  earth.  He  does 
not  exercise  it  consciously,  and  so  fails  to 
produce  for  himself  the  harmonious  en- 
vironment he  should  enjoy.  Instead,  not 
knowing  his  right  to  exercise  this  power, 
he  unconsciouslj^  subjects  himself  to  every 
form  of  inharmony  and  imperfection  be- 
cause through  doubt  and  fear  he  brings 
their  reaction  upon  him.  Man  has  do- 
minion in  earth.  Earth  responds  to  his 
exercise  of  that  dominion.  Fearful  things 
[37] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

shape  themselves  as  the  result  of  fear. 
Faithfully  the  perfect  takes  form  at  the 
exercise  of  faith.  The  substance  of  earth 
as  readily  responds  to  man's  call  for  the 
full  and  complete  expression  of  his  idea, 
as  it  does  to  the  call  of  the  mustard  seed 
when  it  determines  to  express  itself.  "It  is 
indeed  the  least  of  all  seeds ;  but  when  it  is 
grown,  it  is  the  greatest  among  herbs,  and 
becometh  a  tree,  so  that  the  birds  of  the 
air  come  and  lodge  in  the  branches  there- 
of." (Matt.  13:32.)  When  man  under- 
stands the  possibility  that  lies  in  his  right 
of  dominion,  he  will  do  the  mighty  work 
that  it  is  his  privilege  to  do. 

Faith  is  much  more  than  mere  religious 
fervor;  it  is  scientific  principle — a  uni- 
versal law.  It  is  the  substance  of  things 
hoped  for,  even  as  Paul  declared.  Faith 
is  beyond  hope,  for  things  "hoped  for"  are 
formed,  actually  made  of,  the  substance 
of  faith.  Hope  is  mere  yearning,  and  but 
creates  the  desire  which  opens  the  way 
[38] 


THE    FAITH     THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

to  the  fullness  of  faith.  Faith  is  the  un- 
derstanding that  gives  fixity  to  the  con- 
sciousness. It  does  not  waver.  A  waver- 
ing faith  is  no  faith  at  all.  It  is  doubt  and 
unbelief.  Only  the  faith  that  is  jioced,  or 
substantial,  can  be  the  substance  of  things 
hoped  for. 

Faith  is  not  belief.  Belief  may  change. 
Faith  does  not  change  for  it  knows  that 
which  is  so.  Faith  does  not  argue,  or  ques- 
tion, or  waver,  or  hesitate.  Faith  knows. 
Today  you  may  have  a  certain  belief.  To- 
morrow your  belief  may  be  strengthened 
into  a  hope  that  it  may  be  as  you  believe, 
but  when  you  demonstrate  the  belief  that 
your  hope  may  be  true,  you  will  have  the 
faith  that  knows  it  is  true,  and  because  it 
is  so,  it  will  so  manifest.  This  is  the  faith 
that  heals  the  sick,  raises  the  dead,  rebukes 
the  devil,  removes  the  mountains,  and  sets 
you  free. 

The  faith  that  does  this  work  comes 
only  from  understanding  your  right  to  ex- 
[39] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ercise  it.  This  can  be  only  as  you  recog- 
nize yourself  as  a  Son  of  God.  There  is 
no  doubt  of  this  truth,  so  never  allow  the 
mind  to  enter  into  uncertainty  in  regard 
to  it.  Jesus  plainly  said,  "Call  no  man 
on  earth  your  father,  for  one  is  your 
Father,  even  God."  The  apostle  John, 
who  entered  into  Jesus'  own  conscious- 
ness, said,  "Beloved,  now  are  we  the  Sons 
of  God."  When  you  know  your  divinity, 
then  you  know  your  right  to  every  good 
that  belongs  to  the  divinely  royal  family. 
What  is  unbelief?  It  is  merely  not 
knowing  your  right  to  believe.  Unbelief, 
which  is  lack  of  faith,  is  born  of  the  con- 
sciousness of  being  the  servant  of  God. 
Belief  which  leads  to  the  hope  that  finally 
becomes  ficced  in  faith  comes  from  know- 
ing that  you  are  the  Son  of  God.  While 
you  are  a  servant  you  are  under  the  law. 
When  you  realize  your  Sonship,  then  you 
use  the  law.  Love  fulfills  the  law.  Christ, 
the  Son  in  you,  is  above  the  law,  that  is, 

[401 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

the  operator  of  it.  The  Son  of  God  uses 
the  law  to  do  the  works  of  his  Father. 
He  is  expected  to  do  so,  for  to  him  has 
been  given  the  dominion.  To  be  conscious 
of  being  the  Son  is  to  have  power — power 
to  bring  to  pass  every  good. 

The  Son  of  God  consciousness  is  the 
heavenly  state  of  mind.  It  thinks  from 
above.  To  live  in  the  earthly,  or  objec- 
tive, consciousness  is  to  experience  only 
the  negative,  shadow  side  of  things.  When 
the  mind  is  centered  here  it  is  in  the  realm 
of  effects,  and  has  descended  from  the 
heights  from  which  it  should  function — 
the  realm  in  which  effects  are  caused. 
Man,  as  the  Son  of  God,  is  the  cause  of 
effects,  and  should  never  be  in  bondage 
to  the  effects  which  he  has  caused. 

Man  is  the  light,  and  should  think  light 
and  dispel  darkness.  Clouds  of  unbelief 
vanish  before  this  mighty  power  when  it 
is  exercised.  All  shadows  must  pass  away, 
and  the  Son  of  God  in  man  must  come 
[41] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

forth  into  visibility.  He  must  be  seen  as 
he  is,  and  not  as  he  has  thought  himself 
to  be.  He  is  to  change  his  thoughts  of 
himself  to  that  which  is  so  of  himself. 
From  the  celestial  heights  of  the  Son  of 
God  consciousness,  all  things  are  seen  to 
proceed  from  the  one  Being,  and  to  be 
governed  by  the  one  and  only  power — 
God.  There  is  one  power — God.  It  is 
exercised  through  man,  for  man  gives  ex- 
pression to  God.  All  power  is  in  Man, — 
is  in  you.  To  know  this  is  faith.  Leave 
forever  the  powerless  side  of  yourself  for 
the  powerful.  Turn  from  without  to  the 
within.  Abandon  external  thinking  for 
the  internal.  Find  the  kingdom  of  God 
within  yourself.  Leave  the  faithless  side 
of  yourself  for  the  faithful.  Take  your 
stand  on  the  right  side — the  side  of  truth, 
the  side  of  power,  the  side  that  it  is  fight 
for  you  to  take.  Then  only  can  you  dem- 
onstrate, for  this  is  the  side  of  the  Son  of 
[42] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

God  to  whom  all  power  is  given  in  heaven 
and  in  earth. 

As  members  of  the  divine  family  we 
may  share  all  that  the  Father  has,  and  co- 
operate with  him  in  bringing  all  good  into 
manifestation.  To  imagine  ourselves  serv- 
ants of  God  is  to  beg,  beseech,  fear.  To 
the  Son,  all  is  given.  "Son  thou  art  ever 
with  me,  and  all  that  I  have  is  thine." 
Jesus  was  so  conscious  of  this  perfect  re- 
lationship that  he  said,  "I  and  the  Father 
are  one."  And  again,  "He  that  hath  seen 
me,  hath  seen  the  Father."  This  last  he 
said  in  recognition  of  himself  as  the  image 
of  God,  or  the  God  Spirit  made  manifest 
as  form.  Jesus  did  not  serve  God.  He 
communed  with  God,  and  allowed  God  to 
serve  all  mankind  through  him. 

"When  the  Son  of  man  cometh  shall  he 
find  faith  on  the  earth?"  (Luke  18:8.) 
How  slow  we  are  to  grasp  our  opportun- 
ity— to  comprehend  our  good — to  claim 
our  own!  Right  now  we  may  recognize 
[43] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

who  and  what  we  are,  and  use  faith  he- 
cause  we  are,  Man  is  God's  Son.  He  is 
not  an  hirling.  He  is  not  a  servant.  "The 
servant  abideth  not  in  the  house  forever, 
but  the  Son  ever."  "Henceforth  I  call 
you  not  servants,  but  friends."  (John 
15:15.)  Our  friends  are  those  equal  with 
us.  Jesus  called  "friends"  those  who  had 
entered  into  his  consciousness  that  all  are 
children  of  the  one  Father, — God. 

Not  every  disciple  of  the  Master  is  able 
at  first  to  see  the  Son  in  his  glory.  But 
three,  Peter,  James  and  John,  w^ere  taken 
up  into  the  mount  of  transfiguration  to  be 
shown  the  wonder  of  man  in  this  con- 
sciousness, or  to  behold  man  as  he  shall 
manifest  in  "the  kingdom  of  God."  Their 
wondering  eyes  were  opened  to  the  radi- 
ance of  divinity.  "His  face  did  shine  as 
the  sun,  and  his  raiment  was  white  as  the 

light." 

These  three  disciples  were  the  most  ad- 
vanced in  the  group  of  twelve  that  fol- 

[44] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

lowed  their  Master.  They  represent  the 
three  most  advanced  ideas  in  Christ  con- 
sciousness, or  the  three  that  contribute 
most  to  the  support,  or  unfoldment,  of 
Christ  consciousness.  Peter  represents 
faith;  John,  love;  and  James,  good  judg- 
ment, or  perception  of  the  good.  When 
faith  and  love  and  spiritual  perception 
have  been  lifted  to  the  heights  of  con- 
sciousness they  behold  transfigured  man 
and  see  him  as  the  Son  of  God. 

The  three  among  the  disciples  who  were 
prepared  for  this  were  first  shown  the 
transformed  body  of  Jesus,  then  witnessed 
the  presence  of  Moses  and  Elias  with  him. 
Thus  were  they  given  to  realize  the  im- 
morality of  man,  that  identity  is  never  lost, 
that  divine  man  is  deathless — eternal. 
What  an  awakening  that  must  have  been 
to  those  disciples!  The  power,  the  glory, 
the  immortality  of  man  revealed  to  them ! 
How  fearless,  how  powerful  they  must 
have  become  in  that  instant! 
[45] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

But  the  vision  meant  much  more  than 
this.  Moses  represented  the  Law.  He  was 
the  first  great  leader  in  the  unfolding  of 
the  race  consciousness.  Elias  represented 
Prophecy,  he  who  had  appeared  last  as 
John  the  Baptist,  the  greatest  of  prophets, 
or  as  the  Master  said,  "More  than  a 
prophet."  He  represented  the  next  stage 
in  the  unfoldment  of  race  consciousness. 
With  them  stood  the  Christ.  As  they 
looked  upon  the  three,  thinking  to  build 
three  temples,  Moses  and  Elias  faded 
from  view,  and  the  Christ  stood  alone, — 
supreme.  Then  came  the  voice  from 
heaven,  "This  is  my  beloved  Son,  hear 
him."  In  other  words,  the  highest  expres- 
sion of  consciousness  was  before  them, — 
the  Son  of  God,  toward  which  Law  and 
Prophecy  had  been  unfolding.  Christ, 
first  in  power,  was  the  last  to  come  forth. 
The  Son  of  God  stood  revealed. 

The  great  revelation  is  that  three 
temples  are  not  needed,  for  all  three  states 
[46] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

of  consciousness  abide  within  one  temple. 
The  three  are  one.  The  law  represents 
the  first  plane  of  conscious  power  man  at- 
tains. It  is  this  that  leads  him  out  of  sense 
darkness  into  a  higher  state  of  mind,  that 
which  reveals  psychic,  or  prophetic  power. 
This  is  a  wilderness  state  of  consciousness, 
for  terrible  reactions  result  from  a  misuse 
of  this  power  through  lack  of  knowledge 
as  to  its  highest  purpose.  Here  man  is 
"bit  by  the  serpent,"  psychic  reaction,  un- 
til he  learns  to  "lift  it  up,"  then  he  is  led 
out  of  it  into  the  "promised  land,"  the  full 
Christ  consciousness  wherein  man  is  given 
dominion  over  every  condition  and 
stands  supreme. 

Christ  is  greater  than  the  law  and  the 
prophets,  and  every  man  is  to  unfold 
through  these  planes  until  he  reaches 
Christ  consciousness  and  uses  both  law  and 
prophecy  to  bring  forth  his  divine  ideas 
into  expression. 

[47] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

"The  law  and  the  prophets  were 
until  John.  Now  is  the  kingdom  of 
God  preached,  and  every  man  press- 
eth  into  it'' 

Every  man  is  to  realize  that  he  is  press- 
ing toward  the  goal  of  perfection  wherein 
he  will  understand  his  dominion  and  fear- 
lessly and  lovingly  exercise  it. 

The  Son  in  man  is  his  divine  self, — 
I  am,  the  Spirit. 

The  Prophet  in  man  is  Soul  power, 
that  which  foretells,  or  visions, 
what  the  divine  one  in  man  chooses 
to  express. 

The  Law  in  man  is  the  power  of 
mind,  or  law  of  expression, 
through  which  the  vision  of  the  di- 
vine man  is  made  manifest. 

Thus  the  Son,  the  Christ  in  man,  is 
above  the  law — he  stands  over  it.  He  is 
no  longer  a  slave  to  conditions,  but  he 
molds  conditions   through   his   power  of 

[48] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

visioning,  or  foretelling,  and  the  exercise 
of  the  law  of  mind  which  brings  the  vision 
into  actual  experience.  Man  thus  enters 
into  dominion  in  earth.  He  becomes  a 
king  in  his  own  domain. 

The  Son  in  man  embodies  all  the  cre- 
ative possibility  of  the  Father.  "As  the 
Father  hath  life  in  himself,  so  hath  he 
given  unto  the  Son  to  have  life  in  him- 
self," said  Jesus.  This  understanding 
gives  man  immovable  faith,  enables  him 
to  know  that  he  has  all  power  within,  and 
thus  gives  him  the  courage  to  make  use 
of  it.  He  finds  that  within  his  own  be- 
ing he  is  the  very  power,  substance  and 
intelligence  out  of  which,  and  because  of 
which,  all  things  are  given  form,  and  that 
"All  things,  whatsoever,"  can  be  made  to 
take  form,  and  do  take  form,  in  the  exact 
pattern  of  the  form  he  holds  in  mind,  or 
visions.  There  is  but  one  limit  to  man's 
power  and  that  is  the  limit  in  his  own  con- 
sciousness of  power,  which  prevents  him 
[49] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

from  thinking  into  manifestation  the  for^n 
he  desires.  Power  and  substance  in  mind 
as  definitely  bring  forth  man's  conception 
as  do  sun  and  earth  bring  forth  the  flower 
hidden  within  the  seed  when  it  is  cast  into 
the  ground. 

Man  is  safe  with  this  consciousness  for 
it  cannot  be  fully  unfolded  to  him  until 
he  has  entered  into  love.  He  may  express 
the  high  psychic,  or  prophetic  power,  but 
unless  that  power  is  used  in  love,  it  "bites 
back,"  as  does  the  serpent,  and  he  must 
cry  out  for  deliverance.  Love  is  the  great 
deliverer.  Christ  is  supreme  power,  and 
Christ  in  man  has  all  power,  because  he 
understands  that  all  power  is  God,  and 
that  he  is  one  with  God,  sent  of  God  to 
be  "about  his  Father's  business"  of  free- 
ing all  mankind  from  bondage.  He  fears 
no  lack.  He  knows  no  limitation.  Any 
mountain  of  obstruction  in  the  way  must 
dissolve  before  that  mustard  seed  quality 
[50] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

of  consciousness  which  knows  its  right  to 
express  itself — the  living  Christ  within. 

"Have  faith  in  God.  For  verily  I 
say  unto  you,  That  whosoever  shall 
say  unto  this  mountain,  Be  thou  re- 
moved, and  be  thou  cast  into  the  sea; 
and  shall  not  doubt  in  his  heart,  but 
shall  believe  that  these  things  which 
he  saith  shall  come  to  pass;  he  shall 
have  whatsoever  he  saith."  (Mark 
11:22-23.) 

To  every  limitation  one  in  Christ  con- 
sciousness says,  "Limitation,  let  go — I 
am  coming  forth!"  It  was  this  conscious- 
ness that  enabled  the  Master  to  rebuke 
the  devil  in  the  boy  brought  to  him  by 
the  disciples  who  had  remained  at  the  foot 
of  the  mountain.  Their  unbelief,  or  false 
belief  in  regard  to  the  true  self  in  the  boy, 
had  made  it  impossible  for  them  to  call 
forth  the  truth  in  his  consciousness  and  so 
deliver  him  from  his  delusion.  The  disci- 
[51] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

pies  who  did  not  know  the  Christ  within, 
saw  only  the  devil  in  the  boy,  but  Jesus 
who  knew  the  Christ,  saw  the  Christ,  and 
the  boy  was  set  free. 

In  the  same  way  the  Master  met  the 
devil,  or  false  belief,  of  taxation  when  it 
was  presented.  He  did  not  allow  himself, 
or  his  disciples,  to  be  lirnited  by  taxes,  but 
called  upon  the  larger  consciousness  of 
freedom,  and  taught  them  how  to  prove 
themselves  greater  than  taxes.  Remind- 
ing Peter  of  the  truth  of  freedom,  the 
Master  lifted  his  consciousness  above 
limitation,  and  sent  him  to  the  sea  (repre- 
senting the  universal  source  in  which  all 
things  have  their  beginning)  to  obtain  the 
tribute  money  from  the  mouth  of  the  fish 
that  should  first  come  to  him.  The  Sons 
of  God  are  free.  (Matt.  17:26.)  They 
are  greater  than  any  limitation  which 
the  unenlightened  may  endeavor  to  press 
upon  them.  Those  in  Christ  conscious- 
ness whimper  no  more.  They  can  give 
[52] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

two  fold  for  all  that  is  required  of  them. 
In  universal  consciousness,  they  are  free, 
can  meet  any  obligation,  "lest  they  of- 
fend" those  who  do  not  as  yet  understand. 
Every  mountain  in  your  objective 
thought  which  seems  to  deny  freedom  to 
the  Christ  within  is  to  be  cast  into  the 
great  universal  God  mind,  and  there  it 
will  be  dissolved,  or  removed  from  your 
pathway  without  harm  to  any  and  without 
resistance  on  your  part.  You,  however, 
must  know  your  power  to  cast  it  there, 
and  speak  your  word  of  authority — 
"Remove  hence  to  yonder  place."  Then 
will  it  remove.     Such  is  the  law. 


[53 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER   IV 

The  Law  of  Faith 

AITH  is  scientific.  It  cannot 
fail  to  demonstrate.  It  is  defi- 
nite principle,  impersonal  in 
its  nature.  Neither  worthi- 
ness nor  unworthiness  on  the  part  of  the 
one  using  it  enters  into  the  consideration 
of  what  faith  will  do.  The  law  of  faith 
is  as  definite  a  principle  as  that  of  mathe- 
matics. A  thief  may  add  and  subtract, 
multiply  and  divide.  A  philanthropist 
may  do  the  same.  Even  so,  the  law  of 
faith  is  open  for  the  use  of  all.  Universal 
principle  is  for  universal  use.  "He  maketh 
his  sun  to  rise  on  the  evil  and  the  good, 
and  sendeth  his  rain  on  the  just  and  the 
unjust."     (Matt.  5:45.) 

Misuse  of  any  law  brings  upon  the  one 
so  using  it  the  reaction  of  the  law.     The 
law   itself  causes   neither   happiness   nor 
[54] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

unhappiness.  It  is  the  use  of  the  law 
which  produces  effects.  Untrue  motives 
bring  unhappy  experiences.  True  mo- 
tives bring  forth  that  which  is  good  and 
true.  The  actor  is  always  responsible  for 
the  act.  "A  good  tree  bringeth  forth  good 
fruit,  but  a  corrupt  tree  bringeth  forth 
evil  fruit."  Both,  however,  produce  by 
the  same  law.  The  law  of  faith  will  bring 
forth  for  those  who  use  it.  Without  fail, 
it  will  give  to  the  one  applying  it  that  for 
which  he  asks,  and  exactly  that  for  which 
he  asks.  "If  he  ask  a  fish  will  he  give  him 
a  serpent?"  (Matt.  7:10.)  Indeed,  no. 
The  request  for  fish  brings  fish. 

That  being  worthy  or  unworthy  does 
not  enter  into  the  demonstration  of  what 
faith  will  do,  the  Master  clearly  shows  in 
the  parable  recorded  in  the  eleventh  chap- 
ter of  Luke.  Here  is  given  the  story  of 
a  man  who  at  the  midnight  hour  appealed 
to  a  neighbor  for  food  to  supply  a 
guest  who  had  unexpectedly  visited  him. 
[  55  ] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Knocking  upon  the  neighbor's  door,  he 
said,  "Friend,  lend  me  three  loaves?" 
From  within,  the  neighbor  answered, 
"Trouble  me  not;  the  door  is  now  shut, 
and  my  children  are  with  me  in  bed;  I 
cannot  rise  and  give  thee." 

The  Master  then  makes  this  wonderful 
statement,  which  should  inspire  every  one 
to  the  fearless  exercise  of  faith: 

"Though  he  will  not  rise  and  give 
him  because  he  is  his  friend,  yet  be- 
cause of  his  importunity  he  will  rise 
and  give  him  as  many  as  he  needeth. 
And  I  say  unto  you,  Ask  and  it  shall 
be  given  you,  for  every  one  that 
asketh  receive th." 

The  meaning  is  very  plain,  and  the  les- 
son a  powerful  one.  Through  indiffer- 
ence, or  unworthy  acts,  you  may  not  have 
commimed  of  late  with  the  neighbor 
within  you — the  creative  God-principle  in 
your  soul.  A  sudden  need  may  arise  in 
[56] 


THE    FAITH    TPIAT     DEMONSTRATES 

your  life,  and  in  the  dark,  midnight  hour 
of  your  experience  when  you  appeal  to 
this  inner  one  for  aid,  you  may  feel  that 
Spirit  power  has  been  withdrawn.  Spirit 
and  its  relative  forces  may  appear  to  be 
slumbering  and  unwilling  to  yield  to  you 
the  desire  of  your  heart.  "The  door  is  now 
shut,  and  my  children  are  with  me  in  bed," 
the  voice  from  within  the  house  (the 
Spirit  within  your  soul),  may  seem  to 
answer.  Yet  the  promise  is,  "Though  he 
will  not  rise  and  give  you  because  he  is 
your  friend,  (that  is,  friendly  to  you  be- 
cause of  your  worthiness)  yet,  because  of 
your  importunity  he  will  rise  and  give  you 
as  many  as  you  need."  You  have  the  right 
to  ask  your  Father  because  he  is  your 
Father.  If  you  know  your  right  to  ask 
and  stand  at  the  door  and  demand  prin- 
ciple to  work  for  you,  it  must  respond  to 
the  call  of  your  consciousness  and  fulfill 
your  need.  Such  is  the  value  of  this  won- 
[57] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

derful  impersonal  law,  open  for  the  use 
of  all. 

The  great  point  to  be  borne  in  mind  is 
that  faith  is  a  law,  and  being  such,  must 
produce  for  those  who  use  it.  In  your 
garden  there  may  be  a  tree  laden  with  ripe 
apples.  A  good  man,  so  called,  may  shake 
the  tree.  He  will  get  apples.  A  bad  man, 
so  called,  may  shake  the  tree.  He  will 
get  apples.  Getting  the  apples  is  not  the 
result  of  being  either  good  or  bad,  but  in 
having  the  knowledge  to  shake  the  tree,  or 
do  that  which  releases  the  fruit.  Even  so, 
fulfilling  the  law  of  faith  produces  the 
demonstration,  for  demonstration  is  the 
result  of  applied  principle.  When  you 
discover  that  God,  in  giving  you  dominion 
in  earth,  gave  you  a  law  through  which  to 
exercise  your  dominion,  you  will  rejoice 
because  of  the  freedom  that  lies  before 
you  in  your  opportunity  of  bringing  free- 
dom to  others.  Faith  worketh  in  love,  and 
the  magical,  wonder-working  power  of 
[581 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

this  law  will  make  you  love  God,  the  giver 
of  it,  in  a  way  you  have  never  known  to 
love  him  before. 

It  is  not  the  fulfillment  of  desire  that 
harms  people.  It  is  the  incessant  struggle 
in  the  wrong  direction  to  secure  fulfill- 
ment of  desire.  Mankind  feels  his  inher- 
ent right  to  freedom  and  rebels  against 
limitation,  but  unconscious  of  the  law  that 
will  produce  it  for  him,  he  struggles  in 
the  outer  world,  seeking  to  get  from  with- 
out, that  which  can  be  brought  forth  only 
from  within.  Desires  may  be  fulfilled, 
and  the  desire  itself  is  the  first  step 
toward  the  fulfillment.  "Woe  unto  you 
who  are  satisfied,"  cried  the  Master,  who 
sorrowed  because  of  the  woeful  ignorance 
of  man  and  his  unwillingness  to  be  deliv- 
ered from  it.  "Delight  thyself  also  in  the 
Lord ;  and  he  shall  give  thee  the  desires  of 
thine  heart."  (Psa.  37:4.)  "All  things, 
whatsoever,  ye  desire,  when  ye  pray,  be- 
lieve ye  receive  them  and  ye  shall  have 
[59] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTKATES 

them."  (Mark  11:24.)  "Seek  and  ye 
shall  find;  knock  and  it  shall  be  opened 
unto  you."  (Matt.  7:7.)  These  are  true 
promises,  and  are  given  to  bring  happi- 
ness and  completeness  into  the  lives  of 
men.  "Hitherto,  ye  have  asked  nothing 
in  my  name  (in  the  consciousness  of  the 
Son) .  Ask,  and  ye  shall  receive  that  your 
joy  may  he  full"  (John  16:24.)  You 
may  have  what  you  want,  but  you  must 
learn  that  what  you  want  has  its  begin- 
ning in  God,  and  you  must  definitely 
form  your  desire  in  your  own  conscious- 
ness, place  it  before  your  Father  in  the 
secret  place  of  the  Most  High  (the  crea- 
tive God-center  within  yourself)  and 
await  the  action  of  this  Creator  in  bring- 
ing it  forth.  Ask  the  Father  for  what 
you  want.  That  which  begins  in  God  is 
always  good.  If  you  can  lay  your  request 
before  this  Perfect  One,  you  need  have 
no  fear  of  its  being  a  good  desire,  nor  of 
its  perfect  forthcoming.  "He  that  cometh 
[60] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

to  God  must  believe  that  he  is,  and  that 
he  is  a  rewarder  of  them  that  diligently 
seek  him."     (Heb.  11:6.) 

Our  first  step  in  demonstration  is  to 
contact  God.  We  then  have  the  fullness 
of  God's  wisdom,  love  and  truth  (or 
power,  substance  and  intelligence)  with 
us  in  bringing  it  forth.  Our  work  is  to 
begin  from  the  I  Am  in  us  which  is  one 
with  the  I  Am  that  is  in  all,  and  all  in  all. 
A  leaf  on  a  vine  begins  its  expression  at 
that  point  within  itself  wherein  it  is 
joined  to  the  whole  vine — its  stem.  This 
is  the  door  through  which  the  expression 
of  the  vine  comes  forth  into  the  leaf. 
Even  so  within  us  is  the  "door,"  the  Christ 
within,  the  I  Am  in  our  consciousness 
which  contacts  the  great  I  Am  that  is  the 
life  and  light  of  all. 

Your  expression  is  to  be  given  forth 

from  within  you,  even  as  the  leaf  unfolds 

from  within  itself.    Your  affairs  are  to  be 

operated  from  within  you.     "But  thou, 

[61] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

when  thou  prayest,  enter  into  thy  closet 
(the  inner  sanctuary  of  the  soul)  and 
when  thou  hast  shut  thy  door,  pray  to  thy 
Father  which  is  in  secret ;  and  thy  Father 
which  seeth  in  secret  shall  reward  thee 
openly."  (Matt.  6:6.)  The  first  and 
greatest  commandment,  the  Master  said, 
is  this  important  thing  of  making  com- 
plete at-one-ment  with  the  Father  within. 
He  gave  it  in  the  following  words: 

"Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God 
with  all  thy  heart,  with  all  thy  soul, 
with  all  thy  strength  and  with  all  thy 
mind."     (Mark  12:30.) 

Do  you  not  see  how  you  must  be  cen- 
tered in  the  Father  within  you,  drawing 
the  whole  of  your  good  from  him,  and 
that  every  force  of  your  nature  is  to  ope- 
rate from  the  divine  self?  "In  the  begin- 
ning" of  all  expression  is  God,  the  God 
within,  else  God  could  not  be  expressed, 
or  brought  forth. 

[62] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

The  law  of  faith  is  a  creative  law.  It 
brings  forth.  It  must  then  begin  its  ope- 
ration in  the  creative  center — God.  As  a 
creative  law,  it  must  be  considered  in  such 
light.  As  a  universal  law  it  has  universal 
application  on  whatever  plane  of  con- 
sciousness it  is  operating.  Sun  and  earth 
bring  forth  a  flower  when  the  seed 
is  planted  in  earth.  Father  and  mother 
bring  forth  a  child  when  the  conception 
takes  place  within  the  mother.  Spirit  and 
soul  bring  forth  expression  in  body  and 
affairs  when  the  seed-idea  underlying  that 
expression  is  planted,  or  conceived  within 
the  soil  of  the  soul.  This,  briefly  stated, 
is  the  law. 

Sun  and  earth  are  impersonal  in  their 
productive  capacities,  bringing  forth 
whatever  seed  is  planted,  the  choice  of  the 
seed  lying  with  the  individual  who  de- 
sires the  plant.  We  shall  some  day  under- 
stand that  rare  children  are  born  of  par- 
ents of  rare  and  idealistic  consciousness, 
[63] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

and  that  souls  born  upon  the  earth  seek 
their  own  level  of  mind  unfoldment. 
Unconsciously  parents  choose  their  off- 
spring by  the  quality  of  their  own 
thought.  Spirit  and  soul  are  equally 
impersonal  in  their  creative  possibilities. 
"The  desire  of  thine  heart"  is  brought 
forth.  Things  are  shaped  in  your  experi- 
ence "according  to  your  faith."  God  is 
no  respecter  of  persons.  The  law  is  the 
law.  "God  hath  committed  all  judgment 
unto  the  Son"  (John  5:22) .  That  is,  God 
allows  man  to  judge  for  himself  as  to  what 
shall  take  place  in  his  life, — the  perfection 
God  has  conceived  for  him,  or  the  bitter 
experiences  which  shall  cause  him  finally 
to  cry  out  for  the  perfection.  Every  seed 
idea  placed  in  the  soul  becomes  a  concep- 
tion, is  given  thought-form  in  mind,  later 
to  be  experienced  in  physical  form.  Ideas 
of  perfection  produce  perfection.  The  re- 
verse is  equally  true.  Just  as  sun  and 
earth  produce  with  equal  willingness  the 
[64] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

mighty  oak  and  the  frailest  poppy  when 
their  respective  seeds  are  planted,  so  spirit 
and  soul  respond  to  the  call  of  man,  and 
that  which  he  desires,  or  for  which  he  has 
asked,  believing,  he  receives. 

This  understanding  gives  great  rest  to 
the  mind,  even  though  it  is  a  revelation 
of  great  personal  responsibility.  It  re- 
veals man  as  a  master,  and  faith  as  a 
power.  Understanding  faith  makes  man 
invincible.  Like  Christ  and  Peter  on  the 
boisterous  sea,  understanding  and  faith 
must  join  hands,  before  faith  can  walk 
the  troubled  waves  in  safety.  Both  must 
get  into  the  ship,  or  become  a  part  of 
man's  consciousness.  Then  the  sense 
world  is  stilled.  Man  then  may  control 
his  world  from  within  himself  and  speak 
the  word  that  brings  great  calm. 

The  perfect  understanding  is  that  which 

came  to  the  three  disciples  on  the  top  of 

the   mount, — that  the   creative  principle 

is  within  man  himself, — the  eternal,  abid- 

[65] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ing  Christ,  ever  "one  with  Father,"  of 
whom  Jesus  said,  "As  the  Father  hath 
life  in  himself,  even  so  hath  he  given  unto 
the  Son  to  have  life  in  himself/'  Within 
the  Son  is  the  creative  power  to  form,  or 
to  bring  forth  from  Being,  as  has  already 
been  stated  in  the  preceding  chapter. 

As  Being,  (the  Christ)  divine  man 
knows  he  contacts,  and  is  within  himself 
one  with  the  power,  substance  and  intelli- 
gence of  which  and  through  which  things 
are  given  form. 

Through  the  prophetic  power  of  Being, 
(Elias)  man  prophesies,  foretells,  or  con- 
ceives the  form  which  his  power,  sub- 
stance and  intelligence  shall  express. 

Through  the  law  of  mind,  (Moses) 
which  the  divine  intelligence  of  Being 
exercises,  man  brings  forth  through  faith 
that  which  he  has  conceived,  and  "accord- 
ing to  his  faith,"  or  in  the  exact  pattern 
of  his  belief,  he  then  has  in  tangible  form, 
that  which  before  he  had  only  in  an  un- 
[66] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

manifest  state.  Fulfilling  the  law  of 
mind,  brings  the  unmanifest  into  mani- 
festation, or  causes  it  to  materialize. 

Before  man  can  enter  into  his  dominion, 
he  must  understand  that  he  is  continually 
using  all  three  planes  of  his  consciousness 
and  must  understand  their  relation  to 
each  other.  As  already  stated,  the  trans- 
figuration scene  represents  not  only  the 
three  great  steps  in  the  unfolding  race 
consciousness,  but  also  the  three  states  of 
consciousness  within  man  himself.  On  the 
mountain  top  with  the  Christ  stood  Elias, 
Moses  and  the  disciples.  Four  states  of 
being  were  represented: 

12  3  4 

Christ  Elias  Moses  Man 

or  or  or  or 

Being  Prophecy  Law  Expression 

In  the  realms  of  man's  consciousness 

these  represent: 

1.  Spirit,  the  Super-conscious. 

2.  Soul,  the  Sub-conscious. 

3.  Mind,  the  Conscious. 

4.  Body,  the  Conscious  Expression. 

[67] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

Jesus  spoke  of  these  four  planes  as: 
Heart  Soul  Mind  Strength 

He  said  that  man  should  "love  God 
with  all  his  heart,  with  all  his  soul,  with 
all  his  mind  and  with  all  his  strength,"  or 
that  the  whole  nature  of  man  should  be 
centered  in,  or  express  from  God  the 
Being  of  which  he  is  the  likeness  and  the 
image.  Man  is  to  learn  to  think  from  his 
"heart,"  or  from  Spirit,  for  it  is  written 
"As  a  man  thinketh  in  his  heart,  so  is  he." 
Man's  expression  is  brought  forth  from 
the  heart  of  his  being,  for  it  is  there  his 
expression  begins  to  be,  "In  the  begin- 
ning, God." 

It  is  in  the  heart  of  Being  that  man 
says  "I  Am."  It  is  the  I  Am  of  man 
that  is  ever  one  with  the  Father,  as  one 
with  God  as  a  drop  of  water  is  one  with 
the  ocean  of  which  it  is  a  part.  Man's 
being  is  one  with  the  Being  of  God  and  is 
within  itself  that  which  God  is.  For  this 
[68] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

reason,  man  within  himself  is  power,  sub- 
stance and  intelligence.  It  is  knowing  this 
that  gives  him  dominion  in  the  realm  of 
form,  or  makes  all  form  subject  to  him. 
"Even  the  winds  and  the  waves  obey 
him,"  they  said  of  Jesus,  who  was  the  first 
to  claim  his  God-given  right  of  dominion 
in  earth. 

Within  the  heart  of  man's  consciousness 
lies  the  creative  law  through  which  he  ex- 
presses his  Being.  This  is  the  treasure  in 
heaven  of  which  Jesus  spoke,  and  is  a 
treasure  because  within  it  lies  the  power 
of  bringing  forth  every  earthly  treasure. 
It  is  the  cause  of  things.  It  is  a  trinity 
principle,  and  through  its  use  "All  things 
are  possible,"  for  within  it  lies  the  power 
and  substance  and  intelligence  through 
which  all  things  are  created. 

This  heart  of  Being,  man's  Spirit,  or 
Christ  self,  may  be  understood  as  follows : 
[69] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 


1.  Wisdom. 
I  Am         <  3      2.  Love. 


3.  Truth. 

1.  Wisdom,  or  Power  to  express. 

2.  Love,  or  Substance  with  which  to  express. 

3.  Truth,  or  Intelligence  with  which  to  conceive 
what  shall  be  expressed. 

It  can  be  readily  seen  that  when  in  man 
lies  all  power  to  express,  and  all  sub- 
stance with  which  to  express,  and  all  in- 
telligence with  which  to  think  what  form 
shall  be  expressed,  there  remains  but  one 
thing  necessary  to  bring  forth  expression, 
and  that  is  to  decide  what  form  shall  be 
thought  into  expression,  or  to  intelligently 
conceive  what  the  power  and  substance  of 
Being  shall  produce.  This  definite  deci- 
sion as  to  what  shall  be  expressed  is  like 
choosing  a  seed  for  sun  and  earth  to  bring 
forth.  They  are  willing  to  produce  any 
harvest  man  desires,  but  he  himself  must 
decide  what  he  wishes  to  sow.  Even  so, 
power  and  substance  lie  within  the  being 
of  man  and  will  bring  forth  into  expres- 
[70] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

sion  that  which  he  conceives,  or  prophesies, 
if  he  will  only  fulfill  the  law  of  mind, 
which  is  the  law  of  faith,  by  "Asking"  for 
what  he  wants  and  by  believing  he  has 
that  for  which  he  asks. 

"What    things    soever    ye    desire, 
when  ye  pray,  believe  ye  receive  them, 
and  ye  shall  have  them."      (Mark. 
11:24.) 
We  will  now  consider  the  four  planes 
of  man's  being  again,  understanding  that 
in  his  heart,  or  Spirit,  is  the  power  and 
substance   and   intelligence   to   bring   all 
form   into   manifestation;    That    in    soul 
the  Prophet  is  always  asking  "WHAT 
shall  be  brought  forth?"     That  in  mind 
the  law  is  to  be  fulfilled,  or  the  individual 
is  to  believe  he  has  that  which  he  has  con- 
ceived, since  he  indeed  does  have  it  in  un- 
manifest  form,  and  that  through  believing 
he  has,  he  actually  comes  to  have  in  ex- 
pression that  which  previously  he  had  only 
in  Being. 

[71] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Christ  Elias  Moses  Man 

Being  The  Prophet  The  Law  The  Expression 

Heart  Soul  Mind  Body 

I  Am  I  Conceive      I  Believe  I  Have 

In  the  Heart  of  man's  being,  where  he 
is  one  with  the  Father,  the  Father  says, 
"I  am  that  power,  substance  and  intelli- 
gence which  is  the  fulfillment  of  your 
every  desire." 

In  Soul,  the  question  is  asked,  ''What 
do  you  desire?" 

In  Mind,  it  is  required,  "Believe  ye 
have  that  which  ye  desire." 

In  Expression,  it  is  promised,  "And  ye 
shall  have  the  fulfillment  of  j^our  desire." 

As  has  been  before  stated,  this  is  a  cre- 
ative law,  the  law  of  bringing  forth,  and 
in  operation  is  exactly  the  same  as  that 
used  upon  the  physical  plane  when  father 
and  mother  conceive  a  child,  the  body  of 
which  is  given  form  within  the  matrix  of 
[721 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

the  mother,  and  in  fullness  of  time  is 
brought  to  birth.  Even  so  the  Spirit 
(father)  and  Soul  (mother)  conceive 
what  is  to  be  brought  forth,  and  this  seed- 
idea  is  held  within  the  matrix  of  the  soul, 
the  mind,  until  in  fullness  of  time  it  is  pro- 
duced in  form,  or  delivered  upon  the 
physical  plane. 

It  is  now  easy  to  see  that  your  desire 
in  the  without  must  through  "the  silence," 
or  in  prayer  be  carried  to  the  inner  sanc- 
tuary of  the  soul  ("thy  closet")  and  there 
placed  as  a  definite  request  before  the 
Father— the  I  Am.  This  is  "asking." 
The  Spirit  asks,  ''What  shall  I  do  for 
thee?"  You  answer  by  naming  your  de- 
sire,— by  asking. 

Lifted  to  the  spiritual  plane,  your  re- 
quest is  there  quickened  by  the  Spirit  and 
becomes  a  conception  in  your  soul.  Now  it 
is  a  conceived  idea, — a  seed  planted  in  the 
soil  of  your  soul.  As  any  other  seed,  it 
[73] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

will  germinate,  develop  first  in  the  invis- 
ible, and  in  "fullness  of  time"  come  forth. 

The  mind,  conscious  of  this,  expects  the 
fulfillment,  as  does  a  mother  her  child,  or 
a  farmer  his  harvest.  This  is  "believing." 
It  is  "holding  in  mind"  the  form  of  the 
perfected  expression.  The  mother  be- 
lieves she  has  her  child,  even  when  it  is 
being  formed  in  the  invisible.  The  farmer 
believes  he  has  his  harvest,  even  while  it 
is  growing  beneath  the  soil.  We  must 
"believe  we  have"  our  demonstration 
while  it  is  being  formed  for  us  in  the  in- 
ner realms  of  consciousness,  for  it  is  "be- 
lieving we  have"  that  holds  definitely  in 
mind  the  form  of  our  desire,  and  gives  it 
the  desired  form.  When  we  believe  we 
have,  seeing  in  faith,  "the  invisible,"  we 
have. 

In  fullness  of  time,  this  thought  form  is 

delivered  upon  the  physical  plane.     As  a 

mother's  birth  effort  delivers  her  child,  so 

you  through  phyical  effort  perfect  your 

[74] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

demonstration.  It  requires  strength  to 
speak  and  act  in  a  way  that  is  true  to  the 
conception,  and  to  carry  out  the  idea  held 
in  mind.  The  idea  of  health  and  the 
thought  form  of  health  must  not  be  denied 
by  the  action  of  sickness  or  by  resorting 
to  external  means  to  try  to  get  well.  The 
thought  form  is  perfect  health  now. 

If  the  soul  conception  is  abundance,  the 
action  must  carry  out  that  idea.  The  spirit 
of  the  action  must  conform  to  the  image. 
Until  abundance  manifests  the  amount  of 
expenditure  need  not  be  increased,  but  the 
spirit  of  the  mind  must  be  one  of  richness, 
and  what  is  spent  rnust  be  allowed  to  leave 
the  hands  cheerfully  and  willingly  in  no 
consciousness  of  loss  or  of  self-denial,  but 
rather  in  the  attitude  of  trust  and  thanks- 
giving because  of  the  ever  present  supply 
now  being  made  manifest.  Be  true.  Spirit, 
soul,  mind  and  body  must  agree  to  bring 
forth  even  as  you  have  conceived,  exact- 
ly "according  to  your  faith."  "Ye  shall 
[75] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

reap  in  due  time  (the  time  of  fulfillment) 
if  ye  faint  not.  "Be  not  faithless,  but  be- 
lieving/' 


[76] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  V 

The  Faith  That  Heals 

HE  Master  made  it  very  clear 
that  healing  is  accomplished 
through  faith.  It  could  not  be 
otherwise,  for  health  springs 
from  within.  Life  which  is  health  must 
have  its  source  in  God,  the  giver  of  life, 
who  is  ever  within  the  soul  yearning  to 
quicken  soul,  mind,  body  and  affairs  with 
power  and  perfection,  but  who  cannot  do 
so  until  the  principle  for  this  quickening, 
or  out-pouring  is  fulfilled.  God  is  brought 
forth  into  expression  through  the  law  of 
faith  and  it  was  for  this  reason  that  the 
Master  invariably  told  those  whom  he  had 
been  able  to  heal,  "Thy  faith  hath  made 
thee  whole.  Thy  faith  hath  saved  thee." 
Sometimes,  before  speaking  the  healing 
word,  he  asked  the  one  desiring  help,  "Be- 
lieve ye  that  I  am  able  to  do  this?"  (Matt. 
[77] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

9 :28. )  It  is  recorded,  also,  that  in  his  own 
country  he  could  do  no  mighty  works  be- 
cause of  their  unbelief. 

The  bringing  forth  of  Spirit  substance 
into  definite  form  is  accomplished  through 
definite  law,  and  until  this  law  is  fulfilled 
there  can  be  no  demonstration.  Spirit 
forms  according  to  the  conception  held  in 
mind  through  faith.  For  this  reason  all 
things  are  to  us  according  to  our  faith. 
Until  faith  in  the  thing  desired  is  estab- 
lished in  the  mind,  it  cannot  assume  defin- 
ite form  in  the  experience,  and  the  reason 
that  so  many  undesirable  things  take  form 
in  our  lives  is  because,  unconsciously,  we 
have  held  in  mind,  or  have  had  faith  in,  a 
conception  which  we  really  dreaded  to  ex- 
perience. The  mind  must  be  trained  to 
hold  only  ideal,  truthful  conceptions  in 
order  that  ideal  and  truthful  expression 
may  be  made  manifest. 

It  is  most  important  then  to  question 
ourselves  in  regard  to  the  real  nature  of 
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THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

our  faith.  Have  we  faith  in  God,  the  good, 
or  are  we  endeavoring  to  solve  our  prob- 
lems and  restore  our  health  through  a 
divided  faith — sometimes  in  the  good,  and 
sometimes  in  evil  ?  A  wavering  faith  brings 
forth  its  exact  reproduction,  —  wavering 
conditions.  Faith  in  evil  brings  forth  the 
evil  condition,  but  faith  in  the  good  which 
is  God  brings  forth  the  good.  Therefore 
it  is  written  ''Have  faith  in  God/'  The 
Master  cautioned  us  to  "keep  the  eye  sin- 
gle" to  this  good,  if  we  desire  a  "body  of 
light"  or  one  that  is  buoyant,  light,  health- 
ful and  beautiful  (Matt.  6:22) .  To  image 
God,  you  must  have  faith  in  God,  or  hold 
God  in  mind.  ''Whatsoever  things  are 
true,  whatsoever  things  are  honest,  what- 
soever things  are  just,  whatsoever  things 
are  pure,  whatsoever  things  are  lovely, 
whatsoever  things  are  of  good  report,  if 
there  he  any  virtue,  if  there  be  any  praise, 
think  on  these  things''  (Phil.  4:8).  To 
hold  in  mind  the  ideal  is  to  form  the  ideal 
[79] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

through  the  operation  of  the  law  of  faith ; 
and  to  free  yourself  from  conditions  that 
are  less  than  ideal,  you  must  cease  to  hold 
them  in  mind,  for  so  long  as  they  are  held 
in  mind  they  are  held  in  experience.  For 
this  reason,  you  can  dis-member,  or  bring 
to  nothingness  every  false  condition  in  ex- 
perience through  re-membering  it  no 
more,  and  in  its  stead  form  in  mind,  or 
establish  in  consciousness,  the  perfect  con- 
dition to  be  brought  forth. 

When  you  understand  this  as  a  laAv 
through  which  all  form  becomes  manifest, 
then  you  will  realize  how  important  it  is 
to  have  faith  in  the  good,  and  if  that  faith 
is  not  a  part  of  your  consciousness,  then 
you  will  want  to  know  just  how  it  can  be- 
come so.  It  is  Paul  who  speaks  of  the  law 
of  faith,  and  he  also  tells  us  just  how  the 
faith-less  may  be  made  faith-f ul.  He  says 
(Romans  10:17)  that  faith  may  be  culti- 
vated,— "So  faith  Cometh  by  hearing,  and 
hearing  by  the  woi^d  of  God."  All  things, 
[80] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

including  faith  itself  have  their  beginning 
in  the  word.  For  this  reason  when  faith 
seems  to  be  lacking,  the  word  "faith"  must 
be  spoken,  for  back  of  the  word  faith,  lies 
the  thought  faith,  and  back  of  the  thought 
faith  is  the  idea  faith,and  in  this  idea  of 
faith  lies  the  Spirit  power  of  faith  which 
is  released  in  consciousness  when  the  word 
"faith"  calls  it  forth.  It  is  for  this  reason 
that  we  a^k  the  Father  within  for  what  we 
want,  and  by  believing  that  we  have  re- 
ceived, we  have,  for  it  takes  form  in  our 
experience  when  we  call  it  forth  through 
asking  and  believing. 

Word,  thought,  idea  and  Spirit-power 
bear  exactly  the  same  relation  to  each 
other  that  the  key,  hammer,  string  and 
vibration  bear  to  each  other  in  a  piano. 
The  vibration,  or  power  within  the  string 
is  released  as  sound  to  the  ear  only  as  the 
key  in  connection  with  it  is  struck.  The 
key  C  moves  the  hammer  C  which  touches 
the  string  C  and  releases  the  vibration  C. 
[81] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

In  no  other  way  can  that  particular  tone 
be  brought  forth.  If  we  want  the  tone  C, 
we  must  be  particular  to  strike  the  hey  C. 
In  the  same  way,  the  word  health  moves 
the  thought  health,  and  awakens  the  idea 
health  until  the  virbation  or  feeling  of 
health  is  released  in  consciousness.  It  is 
for  this  reason  that  the  weak  are  told  to 
say  "I  am  strong."  Strength  is  what  the 
weak  wish  to  experience,  therefore  they 
must  say  it  and  tJdnk  it  and  in  exact  ful- 
fillment of  the  law  of  faith  they  will  feel  it, 
but  they  will  not  do  so  as  long  as  they 
persist  in  saying  "weak." 

These  true  words,  or  words  declaring 
the  truth  of  Being,  are  the  "keys  of  the 
kingdom"  to  which  Jesus  referred  when 
he  told  Peter,  the  man  of  faith,  that  they 
would  be  given  to  him.  They  are  given 
to  every  faith-full  soul  who  will  lift  the 
consciousness  above  the  testimony  of  the 
senses,  or  the  opinions  of  others,  and  voice 
the  Truth  from  the  prompting  of  the 
[82] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Spirit  within.  In  no  other  way  can  the 
"church"  of  Christ  which  is  the  "temple 
of  the  body"  be  built,  for  it  must  be  formed 
from  within,  but  can  be  only  as  the  word 
which  calls  it  forth  is  spoken  from  without. 
The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  within,  and  the 
keys  which  unlock  this  kingdom  to  the 
consciousness  of  man  are  the  good  words 
or  words  of  God  which  we  speak.  We 
must  speak  the  words  that  are  true  of 
Being,  then  will  the  true  become  manifest, 
and  the  false  will  pass  away. 

Not  only  does  it  take  faith  to  disregard 
the  appearance  and  call  forth  the  ideal, 
but  it  takes  a  continuance  of  faith  to  es- 
tablish the  ideal  in  consciousness  and  make 
it  real  in  experience.  The  word  we  speak 
is  but  a  seed.  Like  every  seed  it  grows 
first  beneath  the  soil,  hidden  from  view. 
When  the  seed-word  is  spoken  it  takes 
root  in  the  soil  of  the  mind.  It  will  sure- 
ly bring  forth  after  its  kind,  and  we  will 
"reap  in  due  time, — if  we  faint  not." 
[83] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Often  we  miss  the  fruit  of  faith  because 
we  have  not  continued  in  faith,  or  awaited 
the  fulfillment  of  faith.  No  farmer  would 
plant  his  grain  and  not  await  his  har- 
vest. Instead  he  would  make  preparation 
for  his  harvest.  He  would  plant  his  seed 
believing  that  he  would  receive.  Even  so  a 
mother  who  has  conceived  a  child  trusts 
that  interior  growth  which  takes  place  and 
which  is  hid  from  her  view,  and  prepares 
for  the  birth  of  the  child,  believing  sihe  has 
received.  So,  when  we  speak  the  word  of 
Truth  which  is  the  seed  of  the  ideal  we 
wish  to  see  manifest,  we  must  believe  we 
have,  and  with  no  doubt  in  the  mind,  trust 
that  first  growth  which  always  takes  place 
within,  hid  from  view.  Fear,  doubt  and 
uncertainty  prevent  the  perfect  "holding 
in  mind"  of  the  thing  desired,  and  until 
it  is  established,  or  made  firm,  in  mind  it 
cannot  take  form  in  the  external. 

Just  as  a  seed  must  be  established  in 
the  earth  before  it  will  start  to  grow,  so 
[84] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

must  an  idea  be  established  in  mind  be- 
fore it  will  begin  to  express.  A  wavering 
mind  is  not  established,  and  James  tells  us 
that  in  this  consciousness  we  can  never 
hope  to  receive  from  the  Lord  or  from 
the  outworking  of  the  law.  "Let  him  ash 
in  faithj  nothing  wavering.  For  he  that 
wavereth  is  like  a  wave  of  the  sea,  driven 
with  the  wind  and  tossed,  for  let  not  that 
man  think  he  shall  receive  anything  of  the 
Lord'"    (James  1:6-7). 

Therefore  be  firm  in  speaking  the  word 
of  truth  for  healing.  Affirm  that  which 
is  true  in  Being  by  speaking  the  true  word 
which  will  unlock  the  inner  kingdom  of 
reality  and  establish  its  ideas  in  experi- 
ence. When  the  word  for  the  true  condi- 
tion has  been  spoken,  claim  the  effect  of 
that  word,  and  be  unmoved  by  any  ap- 
pearance to  the  contrary.  From  the  mo- 
ment the  word  of  Truth  is  spoken,  claim 
its  full  fruition,  believing  that  you  have 
received,  and  act  in  perfect  accord  with 
[85] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

that  belief.  Action  must  carry  out  the 
spirit  of  the  mind, — not  contradict  it.  It 
is  this  that  builds  the  house,  or  establishes 
the  body,  so  that  nothing  from  without  can 
affect  it.  From  the  moment  you  speak 
the  word  "health,"  hold  it  in  mind,  and  act 
as  though  health  is  already  received  for  in 
this  way  is  the  law  of  faith  fulfilled. 
Regardless  of  every  appearance,  claim 
that  health  is  yours  from  the  moment  you 
a^k  the  Father  within  to  manifest  as 
health,  for  the  Father  within,  or  this  Infi- 
nite Power  in  the  Heaven  within,  can  no 
more  avoid  responding  than  the  sound 
within  the  piano  can  help  coming  forth 
when  the  key  is  struck.  For  this  reason  it 
is  written,  "If  you  ask  for  bread,  will  he 
give  you  a  stone?"  He  cannot  give  you 
a  stone,  for  it  is  the  nature  of  the  Father 
to  give  you  that  for  which  you  ask.  "Ask 
and  you  shall  receive,  for  everyone  that 
asketh,  receiveth." 

[86] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

When  I  had  been  in  the  consciousness 
of  Truth  less  than  eighteen  months,  and 
as  yet  had  but  little  knowledge  of  the  law 
of  faith  in  healing  which  must  always 
be  fulfilled,  even  though  we  may  be  un- 
conscious of  it,  I  had  the  following  case 
of  instantaneous  healing: 

We  were  living  in  an  apartment  in  San 
Francisco.  My  husband  expected  to  go 
away  that  evening  on  important  business, 
and  I  had  to  remain  alone  with  our  little 
four-year-old  son,  who  was  ill.  He  was 
very  feverish  and  delirious.  I  had  been 
holding  him  in  my  arms  all  morning  de- 
claring freedom  for  him,  but  with  no  suc- 
cess. As  I  review  the  case  now,  I  realize 
that  it  was  my  fear  which  prevented  the 
healing,  for  I  dreaded  being  left  alone 
with  the  child  that  night.  This  bound  me 
in  consciousness  to  the  idea  of  sickness 
rather  than  to  that  of  freedom.  Though 
I  did  not  realize  it  then,  I  knew  later  that 
[87] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

it  was  this  which  prevented  the  law  of 
mind  from  doing  its  perfect  work. 

Having  no  success  with  my  treatment, 
I  finally  became  almost  desperate.  I  be- 
gan to  wonder  why  the  case  seemed  so  re- 
sistant, for  at  other  times  I  had  been  able 
to  use  the  law  and  relieve  fevers  quickly 
and  easily.  At  last  I  resolved  to  find  out 
wherein  I  was  failing.  I  laid  the  little  boy 
down  and  went  into  the  next  room.  I  took 
my  Bible  and  sat  down  in  a  chair.  Then 
I  asked  the  Spirit  to  show  me  the  way 
and  to  have  me  open  the  Bible  to  a  pass- 
age that  would  reveal  to  me  my  mistake. 
I  sat  in  the  silence  for  a  few  moments, 
then  opened  the  Bible.  I  opened  to  the 
4th  Chapter  of  2  Kings.  My  finger  was 
upon  the  26th  verse.  (Read  2  Kings 
4:17-27.)  It  was  the  story  of  the  Shu- 
nammite  woman  whose  son  had  died.  As 
she  went  to  the  Prophet  Elisha,  his  serv- 
ant came  to  meet  her  with  the  question, 
"Is  it  well  with  thee,  is  it  well  with  thy 
[88] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

husband,  is  it  well  with  thy  child?"  In  all 
the  strength  of  a  complete  faith,  she  made 
answer,  "It  is  well."  Instantly,  I  saw  that 
if  she  could  say,  "It  is  well,"  with  her  son 
dead,  I  certainly  could  say  the  same  with 
my  son  sick.  I  realized  at  once  that  I 
must  be  positive  in  the  truth,  denying  the 
appearance,  and  so  started  toward  the 
room  where  my  little  boy  lay,  still  in  a 
state  of  stupor. 

It  was  at  this  point  that  a  most  impor- 
tant thing  happened  to  me,  one  which  in- 
variably happens  to  all.  I  was  tested. 
The  Spirit  proved  my  faith.  Just  as  I 
was  passing  into  the  next  room,  the  door 
bell  rang,  and  when  I  opened  the  door, 
there  stood  a  friend  from  another  apart- 
ment.    The  question  she  asked  me  was: 

''How  is  Timothyr 

I    stood   before   her  in   bewilderment. 

How  should  I  answer?   In  the  next  room 

the  child  lay  in  a  stupor.    I  had  just  been 

told  by  the  Spirit  to  say,  "It  is  well,"  but 

[89] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

could  I,  without  evidence  to  the  senses, 
and  feel  that  I  was  speaking  the  truth? 
Somehow,  I  realized  that  it  was  my  test, 
and  in  the  boldness  of  my  faith,  I  almost 
shouted  at  her: 

"He  is  well!" 

In  but  an  instant  I  felt  a  pull  at  my 
dress,  and  there  by  my  side  stood  my  little 
boy.    He  said: 

"Mother,  I  want  my  supper." 

I  stood  trembling  with  wonder.  Al- 
though I  thought  I  believed,  still  it  seemed 
impossible  that  he  could  be  there — freed. 
However,  it  was  so.  I  did  not  question, 
but  allowed  him  to  be  the  judge  of  his 
need.  He  asked  for  his  dinner,  so  I  gave 
it  to  him  at  once,  and  tucked  him  in  bed 
for  the  night, — restored  to  perfect  health. 
Each  of  us  had  been  made  free  from  the 
effect  of  error  through  my  positive  decla- 
ration of  truth.  My  three  positions  in  the 
apartment  during  that  experience  perfect- 
ly symbolize  the  three  planes  of  conscious- 
[90] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ness  each  soul  must  touch  in  making  a 
demonstration.  While  with  my  little  boy 
in  the  sick  room  I  was  in  the  realm  of  ap- 
pearances. When  I  went  into  the  next 
room  to  enter  the  silence,  I  was  in  the 
place  of  the  Most  High — the  realm  of 
reality  where  all  is  perfection.  When  I 
opened  the  hall  door  and  heard  the  ques- 
tion of  my  friend,  I  was  in  the  realm  of 
my  soul.  Here  I  stood  midway  between 
the  realm  of  appearance  and  the  realm  of 
reality.  I  was  at  the  "door"  of  my  Being 
deciding  ''what"  should  enter  into  my  ex- 
perience. The  woman's  question  was  real- 
ly the  Spirit  saying  to  me,  "Your  child  ap- 
pears to  objective  consciousness  to  be  sick. 
In  the  realm  of  reality  you  know  him  to 
be  well.  Now  what  is  the  decision  of  your 
soul — how  is  he?"  My  decision  was  the 
determining  factor  of  my  faith.  It 
"framed"  the  resultant  effect.  "Ye  shall 
know  the  truth  and  the  truth  shall  make 
you  free." 

[91] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER   VI 

Unfoldment  Through  Faith 

HERE  can  be  no  expression  or 
growth  without  faith,  for 
growth  is  pressing  forth  from 
that  which  now  is  into  that 
which  is  to  be  expressed.  It  is  making 
the  unseen  seen.  Not  having  yet  experi- 
enced the  unseen,  we  cannot  reason  about 
it  with  conscious  knowledge.  We  must 
press  forth  into  this  new  state  in  faith,  else 
we  can  never  attain  it.  Faith  is  the  evi- 
dence of  things  not  seen,  the  substance  of 
things  hoped  for. 

This  conscious  reaching  out,  this  belief 
in  the  unseen,  is  the  evidence  that  it  can 
be,  and  this  mental  quality  is  in  itself  the 
substance  of  the  thing.  It  is  that  which 
underlies  the  thing  hoped  for.  Faith  is 
the  spiritual  substance  of  the  thing  you 
desire.  It  is  the  invisible  side  of  the  vis- 
[92] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ible  substance.  It  is  the  fixed  idea  in  mind 
which  stands  for  the  formed  thing  in  earth. 
The  image  takes  form  in  mind,  and  be- 
comes form  in  earth.  A  thing  is  first  ideal- 
ized in  faith,  and  then  realized  in  experi- 
ence. This  is  the  true  materialization.  The 
very  worlds  were  formed  in  this  way. 

''Through  faith  we  understand  that  the 
worlds  were  framed  by  the  word  of  God, 
so  that  things  which  are  seen  were  not 
made  of  things  which  do  appear/'  (Heb. 
11:3.) 

At  first,  this  seems  very  mystifying, 
but  since  all  is  Spirit,  then  all  form  must 
take  form  in  Spirit,  the  invisible  sub- 
stance, in  order  to  be  visible.  The  idea  is 
perceived  in  Spirit,  it  is  outlined,  or 
"framed"  by  the  word  which  gives  it  form. 
Through  the  faculty  of  faith  this  idea  is 
held  in  mind  until  it  is  made  firm,  endur- 
ing, substantial.  Becoming  substantial,  it 
is  materialized,  or  becomes  substance. 
[93] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

This  is  just  what  Jesus  meant  when  he 
said : 

''Ask/' — speak  the  word. 
''Believe/' — hold  the  form  in  mind. 
"And  ye  shall  have/' — it  will  mani- 
fest. 

As  there  is  no  limit  to  the  form  our 
faith  may  take,  so  there  is  no  limit  to  the 
form  substance  may  assume  in  our  ex- 
perience. 

For  this  reason  all  things  are  possible 
and  nothing  shall  be  impossible  unto  you. 
"What  things  soever  ye  desire,  when  ye 
pray,  believe  that  ye  receive  them,  and  ye 
shall  have  them."  (Mark  11:24.)  There 
is  no  limitation  except  to  the  mind  that 
fails  to  grasp  this  conception  of  faith  and 
neglects  to  give  desire  definite  form,  with- 
out which  it  cannot  materialize.  No 
flower  ever  blooms  that  does  not  have  in 
its  heart  the  form  it  is  to  be.  A  wise  ar- 
chitect has  a  plan  for  his  house,  and  the 
[94] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

Infinite  who  is  so  ready  and  willing  to  sat- 
isfy the  desire  of  every  living  creature 
asks  but  one  thing, — "What  shall  I  give 
unto  thee?  What  do  you  want ?" 

The  reason  so  much  imperfection  has 
been  expressed  in  the  world  is  because  the 
conscious  mind  of  man  has  not  been 
thinking  the  "thoughts  of  God  after  him." 
Man  has  become  separated  from  his 
Father  through  the  realm  of  conscious- 
ness, while  he  should  be  united  to  him 
through  consciousness,  —  G  o  d's  perfect 
thought  manifest.  Not  understanding 
this,  and  deceived  by  appearances,  man 
has  fallen  into  error- thinking ;  tare  seeds 
have  taken  root  in  his  soul;  mis-concep- 
tions have  taken  form,  and  many  times  a 
mis-carriage  of  the  divine  idea  is  brought 
forth.  This  may  happen  to  the  individual 
again  and  again,  but  finally  these  bitter 
experiences  cause  him  to  seek  his  God,  and 
cry  to  his  Creator,  "Lord  what  wouldst 
thou  have  me  to  do?"  This  is  the  only  at- 
[95] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

titude  of  soul  that  opens  the  way  for  the 
revelation  of  the  divine  conception,  the 
plan  for  the  perfect  unfoldment  of  life. 

It  is  just  as  true  that  we  have  to  re- 
conceive  ourselves,  or  awaken  to  the  con- 
sciousness of  God's  concept  for  us,  as  it  is 
that  a  little  child,  born  into  the  world,  has 
to  discover  for  itself  what  it  has  been  con- 
ceived to  be,  whether  girl  or  boy,  Mary  or 
John.  It  may  live  several  years  before 
a  very  definite  idea  of  its  being  unfolds 
to  it.  So  the  mind  of  man  experiences  a 
new  birth,  an  inner  awakening  to  the  truth 
of  his  heavenly  origin,  his  angelic  nature, 
and  his  divinely-appointed  work. 

Not  one  soul  could  come  into  manifes- 
tation without  the  idea  for  his  expression 
being  divinely  conceived,  his  form  of  ex- 
pression being  fore-known,  and  his  life 
work  being  pre-destined.  Man  often 
turns  from  his  good,  as  did  Jonah  of  old, 
but  the  divine  purpose  in  each  must  final- 
ly be  accomplished,  and  man's  perfection 
[96] 


I 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

brought  forth,  for  he  will  be  thrown  into 
a  sea  of  circumstances,  as  was  this  prophet, 
and  carried  back  to  his  starting  point, 
there  to  bring  forth  the  will  of  God. 

Great  peace  comes  to  our  souls  when 
we  have  wearied  of  experiences,  and  turn 
to  God  for  rest.  What  a  joy  to  learn 
that  our  real  self  is  angelic — perfect — 
and  that  our  work  is  but  to  unfold  this 
perfection  and  "let  the  tares  alone." 

Jesus  spoke  of  the  eternal  nature  of  our 
spiritual  self,  saying  "The  very  hairs  of 
your  head  are  all  numbered."  "Fear 
not  them  that  kill  the  body  but  cannot 
kill  the  soul."  David  spoke  of  our  un- 
foldment  from  a  God  idea:  "In  thy  book 
all  my  members  were  written,  which  in 
continuance  were  fashioned,  when  as  yet 
there  was  none  of  them," — or  as  yet  they 
were  unmanifest.  (Psalm  139.)  Paul 
spoke  of  the  "Body  not  made  with  hands, 
eternal  in  the  heavens,"  that  we  have  a 
spiritual  body  and  a  natural  body,  and 
[97] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

mentioned  having  seen  himself  a  perfect 
being  in  the  "Christ  above,"  but  did  not 
"glory"  because  he  had  not  as  yet  con- 
sciously attained  unto  it,  or  made  it  mani- 
fest. John  gives  us  a  wonderful  word  of 
encouragement  in  regard  to  our  unfold- 
ment   (1  John  2:27). 

''But  the  anointing  which  ye  have 
received  of  him  abide th  in  you,  and 
ye  need  not  that  any  man  teach  you; 
but  as  the  same  anointiiig  teacheth 
you  of  all  things,  and  is  truth,  and  is 
no  lie,  and  even  as  it  hath  taught  you, 
ye  shall  abide  in  him/' 

This  is  the  same  thing  which  Paul 
meant  when  he  spoke  of  our  being  fore- 
known, for-ordained  and  pre-destined  to 
conform  to  the  image  of  the  Son.  That 
is,  it  shall  be  given  every  living  soul  to 
know  that  it  is  planned  from  the  time  of 
the  soul's  conception  that  he  shall  perfect- 
ly manifest  as  a  Son  of  God,  for  how 
[98] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

could  man  be  aught  else  when  God  has 
conceived  him? 

Thus  we  see  that  at  heart,  or  in  Being, 
man's  form  is  outlined,  awaiting  his  own 
conscious  co-operation  in  bringing  it 
forth.  The  Spirit  urges  upon  man  again 
and  again  to  recognize  himself  as  he  is,  a 
spiritual  Being.  Continually  man  hears 
the  inner  voice  questioning,  "What  shall 
I  give  unto  thee?"  So  long  as  the  demand 
is  for  the  untrue,  the  untrue  conceptions 
take  place  in  the  soul  and  have  to  be  ex- 
perienced. Unhappiness,  poverty  and 
disease  finally  lash  the  soul  into  a  desire 
for  better  things.  The  "bondage  of 
Egypt"  drives  the  children  of  the  light  to 
seek  Canaan.  The  pressure  of  earth  cre- 
ates in  the  heart  of  the  seed  the  desire  for 
freedom  in  sun  and  air.  The  grossness 
of  material  consciousness  at  last  compels 
the  soul  to  seek  the  unfoldment  of  the 
spiritual,  and  man  awakens  to  the  possi- 
[99] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

bilities  that   God  has   placed  within  his 
soul. 

All  are  fleeing  from  the  "land  of  dark- 
ness," leaving  the  "old"  and  entering  the 
"new"  through  faith.  Few  press  into  the 
new  without  occasional  glances  backward 
upon  the  old,  and  without  moments  of  in- 
decision,— perhaps  even  at  times  prefer- 
ring the  bondage  of  the  "fleshpots"  to  the 
seeming  uncertainty  of  the  "daily  bread" 
of  the  wilderness.  Nevertheless,  in  the 
midst  of  all  this  confusion  of  mind,  the 
awakened  soul  knows  to  say  "Peace,"  re- 
alizing that  the  old  must  "pass  away," 
and  that  the  new  is  unfolded  "according 
to  our  faith."  We  must  listen  to  the  voice 
of  the  prophet  within,  who  alone  is  able 
to  fortell  the  things  to  be,  and  through 
the  power  of  our  faith  speak  our  word 
to  frame  our  new  world  "in  earth  even 
as  it  is  in  heaven."  Steadfastly  we  must 
claim  the  right  to  our  vision,  hold  it  in 
mind,  and  make  preparations  for  its  com- 
[100] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ing  forth,  as  did  the  widow  of  old  for  the 
increase  of  her  oil.  Fearlessly  we  must 
use  toward  the  development  of  our  ideal, 
the  little  we  have  consciously  at  hand — 
the  little  faith,  the  little  courage,  the  little 
talent,  the  little  strength,  the  little  life, 
the  little  supply.  Never  an  oak  tree  grew 
except  from  a  Utile  acorn!  Things  begin 
in  the  beginning  and  the  beginning  is  al- 
ways small.  The  time  for  the  beginning  is 
now. 

All  things  develop  through  use.  Self 
expression  is  strengthened  as  it  is  exer- 
cised in  faith.  How  many  have  glorious 
talents  lying  apparently  lifeless  through 
lack  of  use!  Some  are  afraid  to  express. 
Others  are  indifferent.  Many  are  too 
selfish,  while  others  fear  they  will  receive 
no  reward.  Through  expression  increased 
ability  to  express  comes  as  a  rich  reward, 
— a  treasure  in  heaven  which  never  can  be 
lost.  Faith  is  not  faith  which  does  not 
[101] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

embody  activity;  that  does  not  express  it- 
self in  works. 

Two  voices  are  ever  whispering  to  the 
soul.  The  one  speaks  of  limitation  and 
impossibility.  It  is  the  voice  of  objective 
consciousness,  that  state  of  mind  which 
sees  things  as  they  appear  to  be.  The 
other  speaks  of  the  limitless  and  reminds 
the  soul  that  every  desire  may  be  fulfilled 
through  faith.  This  is  the  inner  prophetic 
voice  of  the  soul.  It  is  urging  a  better  ex- 
pression, a  complete  happiness,  a  life  that 
is  more  abundant.  Since  the  within  is  to 
be  expressed  in  the  without,  this  is  the 
voice  which  we  must  hear  if  we  would 
know  the  "land  of  promise,"  or  experience 
the  good  promised  to  us.  It  tells  us, 
"Press  steadfastly  on — in  faith" 

The  little  crocus  which  so  fearlessly 
braves  the  cold  and  frost  of  early  spring- 
time, and  through  its  sweet  presence,  an- 
nounces "The  winter  is  over  and  gone," 
is  one  of  nature's  most  precious  messen- 
[  102  ] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

gers  of  the  law  of  faith  and  of  the  possi- 
bilities which  lie  open  to  man  when  he 
will  realize  and  use  that  law. 

The  cold  and  frost  of  winter  become 
so  imbearable  to  the  crocus  that  it  is 
forced  to  turn  from  earth  and  look  long- 
ingly upward,  believing  that  somewhere 
Ihere  must  be  the  warmth  and  cheer  which 
its  heart  so  craves.  This  call  for  warmth 
comes  from  within  itself.  It  feels  the 
inner  urge.  It  desires  good  cheer.  Every 
evidence  of  the  without  denies  it  the  possi- 
bility of  attaining  the  fulfillment  of  its 
desire.  But, — how  it  does  long  for  color, 
for  sunshine!  How  its  heart  yearns  for 
grace,  for  beauty!  How  desperately  it 
pleads  within  itself  for  freedom  from  its 
bondage !  The  cold,  relentless  earth  denies 
it  all  these  things — so  it  turns  away  from 
earth!  This  is  the  first  step  toward  its 
ascent  and  makes  possible  its  unfoldment. 
[103] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Can  you  not  see  that  opposition  which 
drives  you  in  the  right  direction  is  good? 
During  the  exeprience  it  may  not  be  pleas- 
ant, but  that  force  which  compels  expres- 
sion is  a  friend,  and  when  you  "agree" 
with  it,  you  will  hasten  toward  your  good. 
All  suppression,  all  deprivation  that  com- 
pels you  to  listen  to  the  prophet's  voice 
within  your  soul  and  urges  you  into  fear- 
less and  free  experssion  is  a  blessing  to 
you.  Though  it  seems  to  be  your  enemy, 
it  really  is  your  friend. 

The  longing  for  better  conditions  was 
the  urge  of  the  prophet  in  the  crocus'  own 
soul.  (II  Kings  4:1-7.)  The  prophet  said: 

"What  shall  I  give  unto  thee?" 

The  crocus  replied,  "I  desire  to  express 
myself  as  a  purple  crocus  in  the  freedom 
of  sun  and  air."  Then  the  prophet  said, 
"Enlarge  your  vision.  Be  full  of  faith. 
Cease  to  think  of  the  earth.  Vision  your- 
self as  unfolding  perfection.  See  for 
yourself  a  purple  dress.  Think  of  your 
[104] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

heart  of  gold.  Look  upward  to  the  sun. 
Imagine  how  lovely  the  air  is.  Vision  the 
buds  and  the  springtime.  Fear  not, — 
only  believe!"  Thus  spoke  the  voice  of 
the  prophet  in  the  heart  of  the  little  cro- 
cus bulb! 

The  poor  little  widowed  outer  self  spoke 
differently.  The  ugly,  brown  bulb-self 
said: 

"Do  not  make  a  spectacle  of  yourself!" 

"It  is  impossible!" 

"People  will  think  you  unwise." 

"You  are  too  insignificant!" 

"I  tell  you  it  is  winter, — it  will  not  be 
spring  for  months  yet!" 

But  always  in  spite  of  the  discourage- 
ment without,  in  the  innermost  soul  of  the 
crocus  it  heard  the  prophet  urge, 

"Fear  not, — only  believe.  Express 
yourself!" 

It  listened  to  that  inner  urge,  and 
obeyed.  You  rejoiced  because  it  did.  Be- 
cause it  followed  the  urge  of  its  own  soul 
[105] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

you  saw  the  first  crocus  of  the  springtime, 
and  the  glad  cry  "Oh,  there  is  a  purple 
crocus!"  sprang  from  your  lips.  You 
were  glad  that  it  was  a  crocus, — just  it- 
self. It  had  a  message  of  its  own  to  give 
you.  More  than  all  the  flowers  it  ex- 
presses faith.  It  is  small,  but  it  is  brave; 
it  is  fearless ;  it  is  a  power.  It  believes  in 
springtime  in  spite  of  all  the  testimony 
of  winter  in  the  without.  It  obeys  the 
urge  within  itself.  It  almost  gets  frost- 
bitten,— but  it  doesnt!  Faith  may  almost 
seem  to  fail,  but  it  never  does.  Faith  is 
exact  fulfillment, — always  it  is  to  you  ex- 
actly "according  to  your  faith!" 


[  106 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  VII 

The  Transforming  Power 
of  Faith 

HROUGH  the  outworking  of 
the  law  of  faith  we  grow  like 
that  which  we  gaze  upon,  or 
hold  in  mind  for  ourselves. 
This  law  of  faith,  or  suggestion,  is  very- 
potent,  but  it  becomes  doubly  so  when 
that  which  is  suggested  to  us  is  something 
we  love,  or  idealize.  Grecian  mothers 
were  very  careful  to  surround  themselves 
with  every  ideal  influence  during  the 
months  prior  to  the  birth  of  their  children, 
and  Paul  who  understood  this  law  em- 
phasized it  in  speaking  of  the  Christ  ideal, 
— ''We  all  with  ojjen  face  beholding  as  in  a 
glass  the  glory  of  the  Lord,  are  changed 
into  the  same  image  from  glory  to  glory" 
(2  Cor.  3:18.) 

[107] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

The  Old  Testament  story  of  Jacob, 
who  placed  the  spotted  sticks  in  the  drink- 
ing water  of  his  cows,  is  but  another  il- 
lustration of  the  subtle  power  of  this  law. 
The  cows  brought  forth  that  which  they 
gazed  upon, — spotted  offsprings  after  the 
pattern  of  the  spotted  sticks  they  saw  in 
the  water  day  by  day. 

The  drinking  water  but  typifies  the  wa- 
ter of  the  soul  which  God  always  ''moves 
upon'  in  order  to  bring  forth.  Here  is  re- 
flected and  conceived  the  divine  idea  which 
is  to  be  held  in  mind,  and  brought  to  birth 
in  outer  form.  When  the  water  of  the 
soul  is  kept  as  still  as  that  of  a  placid 
lake  the  reflection  is  perfect,  and  the  di- 
vine idea  becomes  clear  and  well  defined 
in  mind.  As  we  gaze  upon  it,  love  it,  hold 
it  as  our  ideal,  and  desire  to  bring  it  forth, 
in  fullness  of  time  it  is  given  birth  and 
that  which  we  cherished  in  mind  takes  ac- 
tual form. 

[108] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Man  instinctively  looks  up,  and  wor- 
ships. It  has  been  a  human  tendency  to 
make  an  image  after  the  pattern  of  the 
ideal  conceived  in  the  soul,  and  this  tend- 
ency has  led  to  the  idolatry  of  the  past. 
Ignorant  of  its  dire  consequences  images 
have  been  graven  in  wood  and  stone,  gold 
and  silver.  A  later  form  of  idolatry  is 
that  which  worships  the  personality  of  one 
who  out-pictures  a  perfect  ideal.  In  so 
doing  the  ideal  is  soon  lost  and  only  the 
idol  remains.  Spirit  would  never  have 
us  worship  idols,  but  ideals,and  for  this 
reason  Moses  was  commanded  to  ''destroy 
their  altars,  break  their  images,  and  cut 
down  their  groves,  for  thou  shalt  worship 
no  other  god;  for  the  Lord  whose  name 
is  Jealous,  is  a  jealous  God/'  (Ex. 
34:13-14.)  No  idol  can  truly  represent 
the  ideal,  for  no  sooner  is  the  idol  formed 
to  represent  the  ideal,  than  lo,  the  ideal 
has  surpassed  that  sent  forth  to  represent 
it.  The  ideal  must  always  be  greater  than 
[109] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

that  which  is  formed  to  express  it. 
"Greater  is  he  that  is  in  thee  (Spirit)  than 
he  that  is  in  the  world."  (Manifestation.) 
(I  John  4:4.) 

The  ideal  of  Spirit  precedes  the  idol  of 
manifestation,  and  presses  itself  forth.  To 
fasten  the  gaze  upon  the  idol  instead  of 
the  ideal  is  to  cease  to  make  advance. 

The  ideal  is  that  highest  conception  of 
truth  which  we  can  form  in  mind.  It  is 
our  supreme  idea  of  good.  It  is  the  "pat- 
tern we  see  in  the  mount"  of  our  illumi- 
nation. We  are  to  build  according  to  this 
pattern, — the  divine  ideal.  To  find  this 
pattern  we  must  climb  the  mount,  and  this 
is  by  no  means  an  easy  thing  to  do.  To 
climb  a  mount  we  not  only  desire  to  reach 
the  top,  but  we  walk  every  step  of  the  way. 
Illumination  is  not  reached  through  hear- 
ing the  word  or  mere  thinking  upon  it,  but 
the  voice  says  to  us, — "This  is  the  way; 
walk  ye  in  it."  When  Moses  climbed 
Mount  Sinai  he  did  so  with  effort, 
[110] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

as  the  meaning  of  the  word  implies. 
"It  was  a  "jagged"  or  "bushy"  way. 
There  were  rocks  to  scale,  and  thick 
underbrush  through  which  he  had  to  find 
his  way.  He  aspired  to  reach  the  heights, 
he  overcame  difficulties  and  lifted  up  his 
body,  compelling  it  to  follow  the  aspira- 
tion of  his  soul.  Moses  did  not  climb  this 
mount  to  satisfy  his  own  thirst  for  knowl- 
edge, but  he  desired  understanding  that 
he  might  lead  the  people  "God- ward"  and 
"teach  them  ordinances  and  laws."  (Ex. 
18:19-20.) 

When  Jesus  "went  up  into  the  moun- 
tain" to  teach  the  eager  multitude,  he  had 
to  ascend  to  a  very  high  place  in  conscious- 
ness to  find  the  truth  that  could  be  "bread 
of  life"  to  the  soul-starved  men  and  women 
who  followed  after  him.  His  compassion 
for  their  need  drove  him  to  that  mountain 
peak  in  mind  where  he  could  see  that  the 
''poor  are  to  be  blessed/'  that  those  who 
''mourn  are  to  be  comforted/'  that  the 
[111] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

persecuted  are  to  ^'rejoice  and  be  exceed- 
ing glad/'  So,  too,  must  we  climb  the 
mountain  peak  of  mind  to  find  that  pat- 
tern or  law  by  which  we  may  solve  every 
problem  in  life  and  bring  forth  the  true 
image  of  the  self — the  divine  ideal  God 
has  formed  for  us. 

This  high  place  is  an  holy  place,  and 
for  this  reason  Moses  was  cautioned  to 
make  careful  preparation  for  the  ascent. 
(Ex.  19:9-25;  20:1-8.)  On  his  first  jour- 
ney he  did  not  go  alone,  but  clung  in  his 
old  mortal  way  to  Joshua,  Aaron  and  the 
elders,  taking  them  with  him  as  far  as  he 
dared.  Consequently,  he  was  not  able  to 
endure  the  test  he  met  when  he  descended. 
In  Spirit  he  had  seen  the  ideal  as  God  re- 
vealed it,  and  when  he  came  down  from 
the  mount  and  saw  the  people  worship- 
ping an  idol  of  gold,  ''his  anger  wowed  hot, 
and  he  cast  the  tables  out  of  his  hand  and 
broke  them  beneath  the  mount/'  Thus 
Moses  broke  all  the  commandments  at 
[112] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

once  in  a  fit  of  anger,  because  he  had  not 
gone  every  step  of  the  way  to  the  moun- 
tain peak  alone.  He  conceived  an  idea, 
but  it  was  not  high  enough,  and  when  the 
ideal  of  his  fellow-men  did  not  conform 
to  it, — his  own  ideal  crumbled  to  earth 
and  every  commandment  of  God  was 
broken  at  one  time!  He  was  later  to  be 
more  truly  led.  He  was  to  build  upon 
a  surer  foundation.  On  his  second  ascent, 
Moses  hewed  his  own  tables  of  stone,  and 
heard  the  Spirit  speak  as  it  always  does 
from  the  innermost, — 

''No  man  shall  come  up  with  thee; 
neither  let  any  man  he  seen  through- 
out all  the  mount;  neither  let  the 
flocks  nor  herds  feed  before  that 
mount," 

Thus  Moses  ascended  done,  preparing 

for  himself  the  two  table  of  stone  which 

were  to  receive  the  law.     He  had  learned 

at  last  to  receive  for  liimself  the  ideal  as 

[113] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

God  intended  he  should.    And  the  Spu-it 
said: 

"It  is  a  terrible  thing  I  will  do 
with  thee/' 

It  as  always  a  terrible,  that  is,  a  won- 
derful, powerful,  beautiful,  awe-inspiring 
thing,  that  Spirit  does  for  us  when  we 
have  opened  ourselves  to  it,  and  have  dared 
to  follow  its  leading  alone.  Even  as  Spirit 
cautions  us  to  receive  it  alone,  so  does 
it  caution  us  to  express  it  alone. 

"Take  heed  to  thyself  lest  thou 
make  a  covenant  with  the  inhabitants 
of  the  land  whither  thou  goest,  lest 
it  be  for  a  snare  in  the  midst  of  thee, 
for  the  Lord  whose  7iame  is  Jealous 
is  a  jealous  God/' 

When  we  have  heard  Sj)irit  speak  to 
us  alone,  we  dare  not  go  the  way  of  an- 
other or  make  an  agreement  with  any 
other  man — for  God's  name  is  Jealous, — 
and  he  is  a  jealous  God. 

[114] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Why  is  God  jealous?  He  is  jealous  to 
bring  forth  his  own  ideal,  because  he  loves 
his  ideal — the  one  he  has  conceived  for 
each  of  us — and  unless  we  look  to  that  pat- 
tern only,  we  cannot  bring  it  forth. 
Therefore,  because  it  is  the  best  for  us, 
God  is  jealous  of  that  which  turns  our 
eyes  away  from  the  perfect  pattern  he  has 
conceived  for  us.  For  this  reason  the  first 
commandment  he  gave  Moses  was  ''Thou 
shalt  have  no  other  gods  before  me/' 
That  is,  in  order  to  bring  forth  God,  all 
attention  of  the  mind  must  be  given  to 
God.  He  must  be  gazed  upon,  loved,  wor- 
shipped as  the  true  and  perfect  pattern 
that  we  may  become  in  very  truth  his  "im- 
age and  likeness."  Thus  do  we  become 
centered  in  the  one  who  is  all  power,  and 
thus  the  waters  of  the  soul  are  at  rest  and 
receptive  to  the  divine  ideal  to  be  brought 
forth.  In  this  way,  and  in  this  way  only, 
can  God,  the  Father,  bring  forth  his  Son, 
making  him  the  idol  of  his  heart — the  im- 
[115] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

age  of  himself — the  expression  of  his  own 
perfect  ideal. 

Each  one  of  us  is  a  special  creation, — 
a  perfect  and  individual  conception  of  the 
divine  mind.  This  being  true,  no  thing 
else  is  like  unto  us  in  heaven  or  in  earth, 
and  so  the  second  commandment  natural- 
ly follows  the  first: 

''Tfiou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee 
(for  thyself)  any  graven  image  (any 
mental  picture)  or  any  likeness  of 
anything  that  is  in  heaven  above,  or 
that  is  in  earth  beneath  or  that  is  in 
the  water  under  the  earth.  Thou 
shalt  not  bow  down  to  them  or  serve 
them,  for  the  Lord  thy  God  is  a  jeal- 
ous God/' 

To  gaze  upon  any  likeness  of  anything 
already  formed  is  to  open  the  mind  to  the 
subtle  law  of  suggestion  and  to  form  that 
which  does  not  belong  to  us  as  a  peculiar 
and  especial  creation.  We  must  see  our- 
[116] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

selves  as  God  sees  us  in  order  to  hrin^ 
forth  that  ideal  God  himself  desires  for  us. 
We  are  in  danger  of  malformation  the 
moment  we  focus  our  thought  on  less  than 
the  ideal,  for  true  to  this  subtle  law  of  sug- 
gestion the  ''iniquity  of  the  fathers''  is 
visited  ''upon  the  children  unto  the  third 
and  fourth  generation  of  them  that  hate 
me''  (or  turn  their  attention  away  from 
Spirit).  To  gaze  upon  the  iniquities,  the 
limitation,  the  diseases,  of  past  genera- 
tions is  to  bring  them  forth  for  genera- 
tions to  come,  but  the  moment  one,  or  a 
thousand,  of  the  illumined  ones  catch  the 
true  concept  of  life  and  "love  me" — the  di- 
vine ideal  —  that  moment  is  "mercy 
shown"  or  that  moment  does  the  same 
subtle  law  of  suggestion  work  for  con- 
struction instead  of  destruction.  No  mat- 
ter what  the  ancestry  may  have  been, 
or  what  the  inherited  tendency,according 
to  that  perfect  law  which  each  may  find 
for  himself  on  the  top  of  the  inner  Mount 
[117] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Sinai, — v/e  can  turn  to  the  ideal  in  the  self, 
and  gazing  upon  it,  bring  forth  perfect 
freedom  from  every  form  of  bondage. 

As  naturally  as  the  second  command- 
ment follows  the  first,  so  does  the  third 
follow  the  second: 

''Thou  shalt  not  take  the  name  of 
the  Lord  thy  God  in  vain/' 

''The  Lord  in  the  midst  of  thee  is 
mighty."  It  is  a  "terrible,"  a  wonderful 
thing  he  will  do  unto  us.  He  is  au.  power. 
This  ALL  power  is  operating  in  us,  an  indi- 
vidual God  to  each  of  us  as  we  individual- 
ly receive  Him.  We  are  not  to  take  the 
name  of  this  God  in  us  m  vain,  or  to  feel 
that  its  power  is  limited  for  us,  but 
through  ascending  the  mountain  peak  of 
consciousness  to  God  in  us,  we  are  to 
know  the  power  that  is  in  the  mount, — 
power  to  do  all  things^  for  unto  this  God 
''nothing  is  impossible/'  though  all  things 
are  done  according  to  law.  This  law  is 
[118] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

to  keep  the  attention  fixed  upon  the  ideal, 
and  never  allow  it  to  rest  for  an  instant 
upon  any  formed  thing  in  heaven  or  in 
earth, — good  or  seeming  bad.  ''Thou 
shalt  love  the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy 
heart  and  all  thy  soul  and  all  thy  mind  and 
with  all  thy  strength''  said  Jesus,  who 
called  this  the  first  and  greatest  command- 
ment. Its  meaning  is  identical  with  the 
first  one  given  to  Moses.  Then  Jesus  gave 
us  the  next  greatest  commandment, — 
that  which  he  said  was  like  "unto  the  first" 
— ''Thou  shall  love  thy  neighbor  as  try- 
self  J"  This  means,  that  if  we  are  to  claim 
the  privilege  of  bringing  forth  the  divine 
ideal  from  within  us  in  perfect  freedom, 
we  must  of  necessity  extend  the  same 
privilege  to  our  fellow-man.  He  has  the 
same  right  to  use  the  law  to  bring  himself 
forth  that  we  have.  Each  man  must  climb 
his  own  mountain,  receive  his  own  pattern, 
and  bring  forth  his  own  ideal.  If  we  fail 
to  accord  him  this  privilege,  and  in  anger 
[119] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

condemn  him  because  he  fails  to  worship 
in  our  way — our  own  ideal  crumbles  into 
nothingness,  we  have  broken  the  whole 
law,  and  will  have  to  ascend  the  mountain 
again  for  a  more  perfect  conception  of 
the  ideal.  When  the  scribe  who  listened 
to  this  commandment  as  given  by  Jesus 
(Mark  12:28-35)  saw  the  great  reason- 
ableness of  this,  and  exclaimed  that  it  was 
"more  than  burnt  offerings  and  sacrifices," 
the  Master  replied,  ''Thou  art  not  far  from 
the  Mngdom  of  God." 

What  depth  of  meaning  in  the  Master's 
reply!  We  are  not  far  from  the  kingdom 
of  God  when  we  can  accept  this  intellec- 
tually as  true,  but  we  are  in  the  Mngdom, 
literally  of  it,  when  we  dare  to  prove  its 
truth  by  our  acts.  Hearing  and  thinking 
never  take  us  into  the  kingdom  though 
they  may  bring  us  Jiear  to  it.  Action  alone 
makes  the  ideal  real.  The  ideal  is  to  be 
given  physical  birth.  When  we  do  the 
w^orks  then  are  we  being  manifest,  or 
[120] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

manifesting  Being,  and  until  Being  is 
made  manifest  in  us  we  are  not  in  the 
kingdom  of  God,  that  is,  have  not  yet 
brought  forth  the  ideal  into  actual  form. 
It  is  doi7ig  that  builds  the  house.  "He 
that  heareth  my  word  and  doeth  it/'  the 
Master  said,  builds  his  house  on  the  rock 
that  winds  and  waves  cannot  destroy. 
Each  soul  must  hear  and  do  for  himself. 
Each  soul  must  climb  the  mountain  peak 
of  illumination  for  the  pattern  as  God  de- 
sires it  brought  forth,  then  each  must 
descend  from  the  mount  prepared  to  meet 
his  tests  and  build  for  himself  as  he  him- 
self has  seen.  Thus  with  the  love  of  his 
heart,  soul,  mind,  and  strength  centered 
upon  the  good — the  perfect  ideal, — the 
power  of  God  flows  out  into  perfect  ex- 
pression, and  God  builds  the  temple  of  his 
body, — a  holy  temple,  indeed,  as  holy  as 
God,  himself,  has  idealized  it.  It  is  this 
"faith  of  God"  which  each  must  accept  for 
himself  in  order  to  demonstrate  perfection. 
[121] 


THE    FAITH    THAT    DEMONSTRATES 

So  God  builds  his  house,  and  from  his 
ideal  forms  for  himself  an  idol  as  divine        | 
as  his  ideal, — and 

''Unless  the  Lord  build  the  house, 
they  labor  in  vain  who  build  it/^ 


[122] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  VII 

Abundance  Through  Faith 

HE  very  thought  of  abundance 
lifts  the  mind  far  beyond  the 
bounds  of  limitation.  One  can- 
not think  abundance  and  con- 
ceive things  in  particular  at  the  same  time. 
It  is  too  large  a  word  to  permit  of  detail. 
With  it  in  mind,  consciousness  must  swing 
far  out  with  full  sweep  into  universal 
existence,  and  soar  unhampered,  unbound 
in  the  joyousness  of  perfect  freedom. 

Consciousness  does  not  attain  unto  this 
in  a  moment.  The  actual  breaking  of  the 
last  vestige  of  limitation  may  be  accom- 
plished in  an  instant,  but  there  is  a  prep- 
aration for  the  glorious  event, — a  prepar- 
ation in  minutest  detail — even  as  every 
petal  of  a  poppy  is  perfected  in  minutest 
detail  within  the  confines  of  its  bud, — 
but  once  perfected,  the  sepals  open  wide 
[123] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

through  the  force  of  a  last  impelling  inner 
urge,  and  the  bloom  unfolds, — gloriously, 
beautifully  free.  A  moment  before  its 
birth  it  was  a  prisoner,  boimd  within  the 
sepal  sense  of  self,  but  an  inner  perfecting 
wrought  through  hourly  preparation, 
grew  mightier  than  the  limitation  and 
proved  that  the  limitless,  the  boundless, 
awaited  a  complete  readiness  to  receive  it. 
Thus  it  is  in  the  faith  that  brings  abund- 
ance. Like  the  land  of  Canaan,  the  prom- 
ised abundance  awaits  the  one  who  has  the 
strength  and  courage  and  faith  to  enter  in. 
Egyptian  bondage  must  be  forsaken,  the 
uncertainties  of  the  wilderness  must  be 
overcome,  and  Canaan  must  be  entered 
into, — then  only  is  Canaan  gained.  On 
the  way  to  abundance,  certain  things  must 
be  abandoned ;  tests  of  faith  are  to  be  met 
and  victories  won;  new  realizations  are  to 
be  accepted  in  order  that  they  may  be 
enjoyed.  No  freedom  was  ever  gained 
wherein  these  three  steps  were  not  taken. 
[1241 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

— decision  against  the  old,  adherence  to 
faith  in  the  new,  even  while  it  is  as  yet  un- 
seen, and  complete  and  full  acceptance  of 
the  new  when  it  is  revealed. 

We  have  done  well  when  we  have  de- 
cided against  limitation;  we  have  done 
better  when  through  persistent  practice  of 
faith  we  have  proved  the  power  of  the  law 
to  demonstrate  that  Spirit  will  indeed 
form  as  supply  from  day  to  day  to  meet 
every  particular  need,  but  we  have  done 
best,  when  we  have  passed  beyond  the 
proving  of  the  presence  of  supply  for 
particular  needs,  and  have  entered  the 
land  ''overflowing  with  milk  and  honey," 
— have  so  completely  entered  into  the 
promise  of  faith  that  we  take  "no 
thought"  as  to  what  we  shall  eat  or  what 
we  shall  wear,  but  find  ourselves  living  in 
supply  itself  since  in  God  himself,  and 
therefore  in  abundance. 

As  it  takes  faith  to  leave  the  old  state  of 
material  bondage  wherein  we  receive  only 
[125] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

that  which  the  law  of  sense  determines  for 
us,  and  again  an  increase  of  faith  to  meet 
the  tests  that  compel  us  to  rely  upon  the 
unseen  power  to  provide  for  the  daily 
needs,  still  again  it  requires  faith  in  an  in- 
tensified degree  to  know  I  am  supply, — 
that  where  I  am  God  is,  and  where  God 
is,  all  is.  Therefore,  abundance  is  here 
where  I  am,  for  I  am  the  boundless, 
limitless  aboundance  of  power,  substance 
and  intelligence  of  God,  present  in  all 
places,  under  all  circumstances  and  at  all 
times.  This  is  the  promised  land,  the  ful- 
fillment of  faith  that  admits  of  no  limita- 
tion, that  recognizes  no  lack,  that  abides 
in  the  consciousness  of  abundance  and 
hence  lives  and  loves  and  gives.  It  is  the 
exercising  of  faith  that  "worketh  by  love,'' 
for  love  is  the  fulfilling  of  the  law, — the 
perfecting  of  it. 

The  Master  gave  loaves  and  fishes  to  all 
who  asked  him.     He  gave  also  the  law 
whereby  particular,  specified  things  can 
[126] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

spring  into  form  to  meet  any  need.  "All 
things,  whatsoever,  ye  shall  ask  in  prayer, 
believing,  ye  shall  receive,"  he  said,  but  he 
ever  held  an  ideal  before  the  soul  of  those 
who  could  receive  it, — "Take  no  thought 
for  your  life,  what  ye  shall  eat ;  neither  for 
the  body,  what  ye  shall  put  on,  neither  be 
ye  of  doubtful  mind.  For  all  these  things 
do  the  nations  of  the  world  seek  after ;  and 
your  Father  knoweth  that  ye  have  need  of 
these  things,  but  rather  seek  ye  the  king- 
dom of  God;  and  all  these  things  shall  be 
added  unto  you/'  (Luke  12:22-32).  He 
would  have  all  come  into  this  highest  con- 
sciousness,— the  Sons  of  God  go  free. 

It  takes  faith,  a  big  faith,  to  know  you 
are  a  Son  of  God,  for  to  really  know  it  is 
to  be  asked  to  prove  it.  The  "nations  of 
the  world,"  those  who  have  not  yet  entered 
into  the  consciousness  of  being  in  the  di- 
vine family,  will  demand  of  you  as  was 
demanded  of  Jesus  in  the  wilderness,  ''If 
ihou  be  the  Son  of  God,  do  this  or  that." 
[127] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

If  you  have  arisen  to  the  full  Son  consci- 
ousness, you  will  never  seek  to  prove  it  hy 
what  you  can  do,  but  will  continuously 
prove  it  by  what  you  are,  and  this  proving 
is  as  often  effected  by  what  you  do  not  do, 
as  by  what  you  do. 

In  universal  consciousness  you  will  like- 
ly forget  to  desire  to  sef^ve  yourself,  for 
being  a  Son  and  having  realized  the  fulfill- 
ment of  the  promise,  you  will  have  risen 
beyond  the  desire  to  be  served,  and  will 
find  your  joy  only  in  serving  others.  Thus 
is  the  law  of  love,  or  "faith  that  worketh  by 
love"  fulfilled,  and  this  love  of  giving  sets 
in  operation  the  unfailing  law  "measure 
for  measure"  where  with  no  thought  for 
receiving,  you  cannot  avoid  receiving,  for 
having  abundantly  given,  the  abundance 
is  pressed  upon  you  in  exact  fulfillment  of 
the  law.  "Give  and  it  shall  be  given  unto 
you;  good  measure,  pressed  down,  and 
shaken  together,  and  running  over,  shall 
men  give  unto  your  bosom.  For  with  the 
[128] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

same  measure  that  ye  mete  withal  it  shall 
be  measured  to  you  again."  (Luke  6:38.) 
Yet,  "Give,  hoping  for  nothing  in  return," 
for  to  so  hope  would  be  to  separate  your- 
self in  consciousness  from  supply  and  so 
to  shut  out  the  abundance  once  more.  The 
Son  of  God  never  descends  from  his  high 
and  heavenly  consciousness.  Possessing 
the  all,  wherein  no  more  can  be  gained,  the 
''Son  of  man  comes  not  to  he  ministered 
unto,  hut  to  minister." 

Only  those  in  the  consciousness  of  being 
Sons  can  receive  the  abundance, — uni- 
versal supply.  It  is  everywhere  present  to 
be  partaken  of  by  all,  but  all  cannot  par- 
take of  it  because  they  have  not  prepared 
their  consciousness  for  it;  they  have  not 
yet  entered  into  the  Son  consciousness 
wherein  they  can  freely  use  the  Father's 
bounty  in  constant  recognition  of  the 
Father's  all  providing  care.  "Son,  thou 
are  ever  with  me,  and  all  that  I  have  is 
thine."  Love  consciousness  only  can  be- 
[129] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

lieve  this  to  be  true.  Love  is  the  golden 
key  that  unlocks  the  storehouse  of  the 
Father's  treasure.  The  servant  of  God 
cannot  use  the  key  because  he  is  afraid. 
The  Son  of  God  appropriates  all  that  the 
Father  has  in  his  loving  mission  of  being 
about  his  "Father's  business."  Confident 
that  he  is  a  Son,  he  has  no  feverish  anccieiy 
to  possess,  for  as  a  Son  he  is  continuously 
possessing  the  all  in  its  unlimited,  un- 
bound, unrestricted,  abundant  state. 

Solomon  (Son,  or  Sun,  of  Man) ,  whose 
radiant  love  nature  expanded  in  the  night 
of  his  experience  to  that  universal  plane 
of  consciousness  where  he  asked  not  for 
self  but  to  be  of  service,  brought  to  himself 
wealth  undreamed,  with  life  and  honor  be- 
yond his  power  to  ask.  (I  Kings  3:8-16; 
10  :l-24. )  He  had  the  wisdom  to  love,  and 
love  released  its  boundless  wealth  upon 
him,  so  that  "silver  was  counted  as  naught 
in  the  days  of  Solomon,"  for  love  is  the 
gold  idea  that  manifests  in  golden  store. 
[130] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Even  the  drinking  vessels  of  this  mighty- 
king  of  love  were  of  gold, — pure  gold. 
The  faith  to  love  is  the  faith  that  releases 
the  boundless  storehouse  of  God,  for  to 
love  is  to  give,  and  to  give  is  gain. 

We  cannot  work  in  the  spirit  of  love 
without  having  God  present  in  conscious- 
ness. To  consciously  have  God  present  is 
to  be  one  with  life  and  wisdom.  To  have 
life  and  wisdom  present  in  consciousness 
is  to  be  spiritually  quickened  and  inspired, 
— to  Imow  what  to  do  and  how  to  do  it.  It 
is  to  be  led  without  effort,  without  toil,  by 
the  prompting  of  the  Spirit  within.  This  is 
the  secret  of  the  great  riches  which  finally 
came  to  Jacob  after  he  had  labored  so  long 
in  Canaan  for  the  sake  of  the  woman  his 
soul  loved.  Fourteen  long  years  he  la- 
hored  for  love,  while  as  yet  his  soul  seemed 
bound  by  the  hardships  his  inconsiderate 
father-in-law  imposed.  Love  finally  light- 
ened his  darkness,  and  the  way  to  abun- 
dance was  at  last  revealed  to  him  through 
[131] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

the  prompting  of  the  Spirit  within.  When 
Laban  had  at  last  consented  to  award  him 
the  "spotted  calves"  which  might  be  born, 
Spirit  prompted  him  to  produce  spotted 
calves  by  placing  spotted  sticks  in  the 
drinking  troughs  of  the  cows.  Interior 
powers  were  opened  to  him  through  his 
faithfulness  to  love.  The  law  of  sugges- 
tion, the  power  of  mental  imagery,  was 
revealed,  and  true  to  the  outworking  of 
this  law,  the  cows  brought  forth  according 
to  the  picture  they  held  in  mind,  and 
Jacob,  who  never  could  have  guessed  this 
secret  by  taking  thought,  had  it  revealed 
to  him  by  Spirit  when  through  his  labor 
of  love,  he  learned  to  listen  to  the  guid- 
ance which  came  from  within. 

The  account  of  the  miraculous  draught 
of  fishes  made  by  the  disciples  of  Jesus  in 
obedience  to  ''his  word''  tells  the  same 
beautiful  story  and  reveals  the  ease  with 
which  abundance  manifests  when  the  law 
of  faith  has  been  fulfilled.  The  disciples 
[132] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

had  toiled  ''all  the  night"  in  a  vain  en- 
deavor for  supply.  They  were  laboring 
in  the  old  time  method.  They  were  to  be 
shown  the  better  way.  A  giving  up,  or  a 
giving  away  from  self,  first  was  required. 
The  Master  borrowed  their  boat.  He 
promised  them  nothing  at  the  time.  Just 
for  pure  love's  sake  they  were  asked  to 
loan  their  boat  that  their  Master  might 
use  it  in  order  to  teach  the  multitude. 

The  "people  pressed  upon"  the  Master 
in  order  to  hear  his  word.  His  heart  ached 
to  satisfy  their  soul  hunger.  He  had  to 
be  separated  from  them  a  little  in  order 
to  best  instruct  them,  so  he  bade  Simon 
"thrust  out  a  little  from  the  land."  Then 
he  taught  the  multitude,  and  when  he  had 
delivered  his  message,  he  did  not  neglect 
to  show  his  appreciation  for  the  loan  of 
the  boat.  The  Christ  always  makes  a  just 
and  generous  return.  He  revealed  to 
Simon  the  way  to  the  abundance,  ''haunch 
in  the  deep''  he  said,  "and  let  doxvn  your 
[133] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

nets  for  a  draught,"  Simon,  who  had 
toiled  all  the  night  for  his  supply,  doubted 
the  presence  of  the  abundance,  but  was 
wise  enough  to  obey  his  word.  When  he 
had  done  so,  he  enclosed  such  a  multitude 
of  fishes  that  the  nets  broke.  Right  there 
where  they  had  been  toiling  all  the  night 
long  the  abundance  lay,  but  they  had  not 
been  able  to  find  it  because  the  principle 
which  reveals  it  to  consciousness  had  not 
been  fulfilled.  In  the  night  of  their  toil, 
they  had  not  loaned  their  boat  to  serve  the 
multitude;  they  had  not  the  Christ  in  it; 
and  they  had  not  listened  to  his  word.  But 
"when  they  had  this  done/' — that  is,  when 
the  principle  had  been  fulfilled, — lo,  like 
magic  the  multitude  of  fish  were  there. 

Today,  people  are  "pressing  to  hear  the 
word  of  God"  just  as  then.  They  are 
starved  for  the  word  of  truth.  Manv, 
many  boats  or  business  enterprises,  are  ly- 
ing idly  by  unused  because  their  owners 
think  they  have  brought  no  return.  They 
[134] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

have  toiled  for  a  living,  and  have  found 
nothing.  ''It  is  God  who  maketh  rich.'' 
''Thou  shalt  rememher  the  Lord  thy  God; 
for  it  is  he  that  giveth  thee  power  to  get 
wealth/'  This  is  the  divine  promise,  but 
since  it  is  the  Father  who  "careth"  for  his 
children,  the  law  of  the  Father  must  be 
carried  out.  We  cannot  prosper  as  we 
toil  for  self.  Let  us  take  our  empty  boat ; 
let  us  thrust  it  a  little  from  the  shore  of 
material  thought;  let  us  place  the  Christ 
ideal  within  it ;  let  us  use  this  ideal  to  serve 
our  fellow  man;  let  us  obey  the  urge  of 
this  ideal,  when  it  prompts  us  to  launch 
away  out  in  the  depths  of  the  sea  of  the 
Love  Spirit,  and  lo,  such  an  abundance 
will  come  to  us  that  we  will  have  to  call 
others  to  help  us  care  for  the  supply. 

Then  a  revelation  will  come  to  our  con- 
sciousness. After  all  supply  just  of  itself 
amounts  to  nothing.  Fish  are  fish,  and 
may  be  sold  for  gold  or  silver.  But  the 
ideal  that  can  attract  fish  is  greater  than 
[13  5] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

gold  and  silver.  This  revelation  uncovers 
a  greater  treasure,  —  the  treasure  in 
heaven,  the  eternal  principle  that  under- 
lies every  manifestation  of  abundance. 
Earthly  treasures  suddenly  become  sec- 
ondary to  this.  We  remember  the  cause 
that  produced  the  wonderful  supply, — it 
was  the  loan  of  the  boat  to  the  Christ  that 
he  might  feed  the  soul-starved  multitude. 
We  remember  that  men  are  greater  than 
fish,  and  we  henceforth  seek  to  serve  men 
rather  than  catch  fish.  When  we  attempt 
to  catch  fish  without  thought  of  service  to 
our  fellowmen,  we  "toil  all  the  night  and 
take  nothing,"  but  when  we  seek  men, 
fearlessly  using  our  boats  for  this  purpose, 
lo,  they  are  filled  with  fish,  without  our 
"taking  thought."  This  is  the  golden  love 
key,  which  opens  the  door  to  the  abund- 
ance of  God. 


1  3  6 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  IX 

Demonstration  Through 
the  Law  of  Faith 

J^^^  COMPLETE  outworking  of 
^  the  Law  of  Faith  which  re- 
sulted in  a  perfect  demonstra- 
tion was  experienced  by  me 
early  in  my  awakening  to  the  truth.  I 
feel  it  well  to  give  this  here,  first  because 
it  was  a  complete  outworking  of  the  law, 
although  at  that  time,  I  did  not  realize  it 
as  a  law;  and  second,  because  it  was  one 
of  my  very  first  demonstrations,  and  I 
wish  it  to  inspire  young  students  to  use 
this  law  rig'ht  now.  It  will  be  such  a  joy 
to  you  to  have  proved  God's  protecting 
love,  and  care  and  bounty.  How  you  will 
love  Spirit  when  you  know  the  presence 
of  Spirit  in  your  life.  But  you  will  never 
know  this  presence  until  you  prove  it.  I 
can  tell  you  of  it,  but  I  can  know  only  for 
[13  7] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

myself.    You  must  dare  to  prove  this  for 
yourself.    Then  only  will  you  know. 

This  experience  came  to  me  just  after 
we  moved  to  Oregon.  We  felt  the  seem- 
ing financial  limitation  which  is  a  wilder- 
ness experience  to  many,  but  which 
should  always  be  considered  as  the  "way 
to  Canaan,  flowing  with  milk  and  honey." 
It  seemed  that  there  could  be  no  house- 
maid, and  that  there  was  no  supply  for 
the  many  things  so  needed  to  give  me  free- 
dom. Kept  at  home  through  my  household 
duties,  and  the  care  of  my  little  son, 
there  was  one  thing  I  very  much  longed 
to  see  in  the  home,  and  which  would  add 
greatly  to  my  happiness.  This  one  thing 
needful  at  that  moment  was  a  piano.  It 
did  not  seem  (please  notice  that  I  say  seem 
always,  for  the  limiting  thought  was  only 
in  my  own  mind)  that  we  could  buy  a  pi- 
ano. It  did  not  even  seem  that  we  could 
rent  one.  Nevertheless,  I  longed  for  one, 
and  I  conceived  the  idea  that  I  could  store 
[13  8] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

one.  Notice  this,  /  conceived  the  idea  of  a 
stored  piano.  That  was  exactly  what  I 
brought  forth, — a  stored  piano,  I  could 
have  conceived  differently  if  I  had  known 
the  law,  but  having  conceived  it  in  this 
way  a  stored  piano  was  given  birth,  or 
brought  forth  in  my  experience.  I  saw  an 
advertisement  in  the  paper  about  a  piano 
for  which  storage  was  desired,  and  wrote 
a  letter  requesting  the  use  of  it,  but  after 
consulting  with  other  members  of  the  fam- 
ily, it  seemed  that  it  was  not  exactly  har- 
monious that  an  unknown  piano  be  given 
a  home  with  us,  so  I  destroyed  the  letter. 
Nevertheless,  I  remembered  that  God  sat- 
isfieth  the  desire  of  every  living  creature 
and  knew  that  somehow  I  would  be  given 
a  piano.  I  asked  myself  how.  Then  I 
remembered  the  promise, 

''All  things  whatsoever  ye  shall  ask 

in  prayer  believing  ye  shall  receive," 

I  decided  that  "all  things  whatsoever" 

included  a  piano,  and  although  I  did  not 

[13  9] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

know  it  as  a  law,  as  yet,  still  I  received  it 
as  a  precious  promise,  and  decided  to  do 
my  part  by  asking  and  believing,  I  sat 
down  in  a  nearby  chair.  I  asked  myself, 
"What  am  I  to  do  first?"  I  realized  that 
the  first  step  was  to  ask;  so  I  closed  my 
eyes,  and  said  the  very  simple  words, 

''Dear   Heavenly   Father,   please 
send  me  a  brown  piano." 

I  desired  a  brown  piano  because  I 
wanted  it  to  harmonize  with  my  furniture. 
But  here  it  is  well  to  notice  that  uncon- 
sciously I  fulfilled  a  very  exacting  law.  I 
stated  definitely  what  I  wanted,  I  framed 
my  desire  by  my  word,  '  It  was  the  living 
seed  which  developed  what  I  wanted. 
Having  asked,  I  remembered  that  now  I 
must  believe  that  I  had  received.  There- 
fore, I  knew  I  must  be  grateful,  so  again 
I  closed  my  eyes,  and  in  the  same  simple 
way  expressed  my  thanks, 

[140] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

''Dear  Heavenly  Father,  I  thank 
thee  that  thou  hast  sent  me  a  brown 
piano/' 

At  once  I  knew  that  the  piano  had  been 
selected  for  me  by  the  Infinite  Mind,  and 
that  it  was  a  question  of  but  a  very  short 
time  until  it  would  be  brought  to  me.  Im- 
mediately I  acted  out  my  faith,  I  pre- 
pared  for  its  coming.  I  arose  from 
my  chair  and  re-arranged  the  furniture  in 
the  room.  I  left  one  corner  vacant, 
empty,  awaiting  the  arrival  of  the  brown 
piano.  I  saw  the  piano  there.  Every 
morning  I  dusted  the  piano  when  I  dusted 
the  other  furniture.  I  imagined  myself 
playing  upon  it,  and  heard  myself  singing. 
Mentally  I  arranged  a  basket  of  beautiful 
orange  wild  rose  berries  upon  it,  enjoying 
the  harmony  of  color  expressed  in  the  or- 
ange and  brown.  I  was  bringing  forth 
my  conception  with  all  my  soul  and  mind 
and  strength,  although  I  was  doing  so 

,      [141] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

more  through  an  obedient,  devotional 
spirit  spirit  than  through  realizing  the  act 
as  the  outworking  of  definite  law. 

Within  a  week  three  piano  agents  had 
called  at  my  door,  asking  me  to  purchase 
or  rent  a  piano.  I  seemed  to  know  that 
it  was  through  the  quickening  power  of 
my  word.  I  had  spoken  the  word  "Pi- 
ano," and,  of  course,  it  vibrated  upon  pi- 
ano consciousness.  I  knew  the  piano  was 
on  its  way.  Within  a  month,  a  lady  who 
lived  just  around  the  corner,  and  whom  I 
knew  but  slightly,  told  me  she  was  going 
to  California  for  six  months,  and  asked  me 
if  I  would  store  her  piano.  When  it  ar- 
rived, lo,  it  proved  to  be  a  brown  walnut 
cased  instrument.  It  went  into  the  empty 
space  prepared  for  it,  and  it  filled  that 
emptiness  exactly  as  I  had  conceived  it. 
I  had  given  birth  to  my  conception !  How 
close  the  fulfillment  of  my  desire  was, — 
just  around  the  corner!  Finally  the 
owner  of  the  piano  called  to  see  it  in  its 

[142] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

new  home.  She  told  me  that  she  was  a 
Christian  Scientist.  Then  I  told  her  what 
I  had  done,  and  we  both  "praised  the 
Lord"  for  the  fulfillment  of  his  beautiful 
promise. 

This  was  a  perfect  outworking  of  the 
law  of  faith  which  I  have  since  come  to  see 
is  exact  in  operation.  It  is  a  law  of  crea- 
tion, the  law  of  bringing  forth.  It  is  the 
one  law  well  know  in  every  home.  It  is 
the  outworking  of  marriage,  conception 
and  birth  on  the  Spiritual  plane.  Spirit 
and  Soul  mate.  They  conceive  an  idea 
in  the  Soul.  It  is  formed  in  the  mind. 
It  is  given  birth  in  expression.  Such 
a  simple  law!  So  easily  understood! 
God's  creative  law  free  for  the  use  of  all. 
It  brings  forth  good,  and  it  brings  forth 
ill  according  to  the  seed.  "What  shall  I 
do  for  thee?"  asks  the  Spirit  within  your 
Soul.  With  you  rests  the  power  of  de- 
cision. "Ask  and  receive,  that  your  joy 
may  be  full     .     .     .     for  every  one  that 

asketh,  receiveth." 

[143] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 
CHAPTER  X 

Guide  to  Demonstration 

I  T  is  the  hour  of  need  that  de- 
mands the  exercise  of  faith. 


When  the  farmer  needs  a  har- 
vest, he  plants  his  grain.  He 
plants  it  in  the  soil,  covers  it  up,  leaves  it 
in  the  dark,  silent  depths  of  earth  until  it 
comes  forth.  The  hour  of  need  is  your  op- 
portunity. It  is  then  that  you  may  turn 
to  the  Father  within,  outline  your  desire 
to  him,  know  that  he  quickens  the  seed- 
idea  which  you  frame  by  the  power  of 
your  word  in  asking,  and  that  in  fullness 
of  time  it  will  come  forth.  In  the  quiet, 
invisible  realm  of  your  soul  allow  this  seed- 
word  to  rest.  In  the  silent,  secret  depths 
of  Being  it  will  begin  its  unfoldment.  Ex- 
pect the  answer  to  your  request.  Know 
that  you  must  receive  the  manifestation 
of  your  word,  as  truly  as  the  farmer  re- 
[144] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

ceives  the  harvest  from  the  grain  he  sows. 
Your  word  shall  not  return  unto  you  void, 
but  it  shall  accomplish  that  which  you 
please,  and  it  shall  prosper  in  the  thing 
whereunto  you  sent  it.  (Isa.  55:11.) 
Such  is  the  law. 

Directions 

Have  faith  in  God. 
Have  faith, — and  doubt  not. 
Fear  not, — have  faith  only. 
Remember,  there  are  no  limitations.  To 
God  all  things  are  possible. 

Use  positive  words  only  in  making 
your  request.  The  perfect  condition  is 
desired,  therefore  plant  in  your  soul  the 
perfect  seed-idea. 

Thus,  ask  to  manifest  health,  and  not  to 
be  healed  of  disease;  to  express  harmony, 
and  realize  abundance,  not  to  be  delivered 
from  discord  and  limitation. 

[  1  4  .5  ] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

Fill  in  all  three  blank  spaces  with  the 
request  for  what  you  want  in  the  tense  as 
indicated.  The  word  is  a  seed.  It  will 
grow. 

Leave  the  how,  when  and  where  to  God. 
Your  work  is  merely  to  say  what  you 
want,  and  to  give  thanks,  believing  you 
have  received.  All  the  details  of  this 
bringing  forth  are  the  work  of  the  Father. 
"He  doeth  the  works."  Do  faithfully  your 
part,  and  leave  God's  part  to  him.  ''Ask" 
God  for  what  you  want,  then  ''receive' 
God's  fulfillment. 

Keep  this  guide  near  at  hand,  giving 
thanks  daily  that  the  work  is  being  done. 
Let  this  be  in  silence  and  in  secret.  "Pray 
to  thy  Father  in  secret,  and  thy  Father 
who  seeth  in  secret,  shall  reward  thee 
openly." 

When  the  demonstration  is  completed, 
this  guide  will  be  one  of  your  treasures, — 
a  proof  of  the  law,  and  the  power  of  your 
faith. 

[1461 


the  faith   that   demonstrates 

Demonstration  Guide 

The  Realization:  "The  Father  in  me 
he  doeth  the  works."  (John  14:10.) 

The  Promise:  "Every  one  that  asketh, 
receiveth."  (Matt.  7:8.) 

The  Law:  "According  to  thy  faith  be 
it  unto  thee."  "What  things  soever  ye  de- 
sire, when  ye  pray,  believe  ye  receive  them, 
and  ye  shall  have  them."    (Mark  11:24.) 

The  Instructions:  "Thou  shalt  love 
the  Lord  thy  God  with  all  thy  heart,  with 
all  thy  soul,  with  all  thy  strength,  and  with 
all  thy  mind."    (Luke  10:27.) 

With  All  My  Heart 

In  the  heart  of  my  being,  I  am  one  with 
thee,  my  Father,  and  I  recognize  thee  as 
the  Being,  the  Father  of  all.  Thou  art 
Spirit, — omnipresent,  omnipotent,  omni- 
scient. Thou  art  Wisdom,  Love  and 
Truth,  the  power  and  substance  and  intel- 
ligence of  which  and  through  which  all 
[147] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

things  are  formed.  Thou  art  the  life  of 
my  Spirit;  the  substance  of  my  soul;  the 
intelligence  of  my  mind;  and  I  am  mani- 
festing thee  in  my  body  and  affairs.  Thou 
art  the  beginning  and  the  end,  the  very 
all  of  the  good  which  I  can  ever  know  or 
express.  The  desire  of  my  mind,  im- 
planted in  my  soul,  is  quickened  by  thy  life 
in  my  Spirit,  and  in  fullness  of  time, 
through  the  law  of  faith,  is  given  birth  in 
my  experience.  Therefore  the  good  I 
now  desire  to  be  made  manifest  already 
exists  in  Spirit  in  invisible  form,  and  but 
awaits  the  fulfillment  of  thy  law  to  be 
brought  forth  into  manifestation.  In 
thee,  the  source  of  all  that  is,  I  already 
have  my  desire  and  but  await  its  outward 
expression. 

With  All  My  Soul 

The  word  which  I  now  speak  outlines  to 
thee,  my  Father,  that  which  I  desire.  As 
a  seed-idea  it  is  planted  in  the  soil  of  my 

[148] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

soul,  and  moved  upon  by  thy  quickening 
life  in  my  Spirit,  must  come  forth.  As 
a  child  is  conceived  within  its  mother,  so 
my  desire  is  now  conceived  in  my  soul.  / 
will  give  birth  to  my  conception.  I  allow 
only  thy  quickening  Spirit  of  Wisdom, 
Love  and  Truth  to  move  my  soul.  I  con- 
ceive only  that  which  is  good  for  all,  and 
now  ask  thee  to  bring  it  forth. 

Father,  within  me,  I  ask  thee  to 


With  All  My  Mind 

The  idea  which  I  have  conceived  in  my 
soul  is  now  being  given  thought-form  in 
my  mind.  I  form  in  mind  only  that  which 
I  have  conceived.  As  a  seed  begins  its 
growth  in  the  silent,  secret  depths  of  the 
earth,  or  as  a  child  is  first  given  form  with- 
[149] 


THE    FAITH    THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

in  its  mother,  so  does  my  desire  now  take 
form  in  the  silent,  invisible  realm  of  my 
consciousness.  I  enter  my  closet  and  shut 
the  door.  Quietly  and  confidently,  I  now 
hold  my  desire  in  mind  as  already  being 
fulfilled.  I  await  the  perfect  bringing 
forth  of  my  conception. 

Father,  within  me,  I  thank  thee  that 
now  in  the  invisible  the  fulfillment  of  my 
desire  is  already  established.     I  believe 

that  thou  hast 


With  All  My  Strength 

No  act  of  mine  shall  deny  that  I  have 
already  received  in  Spirit  the  fulfillment 
of  my  desire,  and  that  it  is  being  brought 
forth  into  perfect  manifestation.  In 
Spirit,  in  soul,  in  mind  and  in  body,  I  am 
[150] 


THE    FAITH     THAT     DEMONSTRATES 

true  to  my  conception.  I  have  piUceived 
my  good  in  Spirit;  I  have  conceived  it  as 
a  perfect  idea  in  soul ;  and  in  mind  I  have 
given  true  thought- form  to  my  concep- 
tion. 

That  which  I  have  conceived  is  now 
being  brought  forth  into  manifestation. 

I  thank  thee,  Father,  that  I  now  have 


"Thou  shalt  decree  a  thing  and  it 
shall  be  established  unto  thee." 
(Job  22:28.) 

"Said  I  not  unto  thee,  that  if  thou 
wouldst  believe,  thou  shouldst  see  the 
glory  of  God?"  (John  11:40.) 

It  Is  Finished. 

[151] 


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